I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try..

Women who don't control their own reproductive rights are not free..

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear..

Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'….

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what hap….

It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about ….

So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humil….

...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warn….

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crim….

I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in ….

i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world.

I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have ….

Well, it's really gratifying to me to have a stage and some bright lights and a microphone. They're tools and opportunities, and to be able to just p….

I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change..

I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves scars that are very, very deep. And u….

You've already put more than enough energy into worry. That's all women have been allowed to do, historically..

What I like way better than LGBT in terms of labeling sexuality actually is a scheme that comes to me from my friend Animal Prufrock wherein one is i….

There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism..

Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-- And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer..

and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to s….

And I was shocked, To see the mistakes of each generation, Will just fade like a radio station, If you drive out of range....