My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.

Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name doesn't allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.

You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.

My heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth.

Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.