The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition..

My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, becau….

Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials….

There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong..

As you get older, there will be a new challenge arising. What you thought you'd accomplished once, maybe the goal post has shifted and it's not what ….

I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly..

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?.

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider….

In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit it are the ones w….

People ask me so many questions..

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed..

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creat….

There's good stuff and bad stuff, but you continue on. I'm not prescriptive - I cannot tell anyone else what to do with their lives, and I'm a deeply….

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expect….

When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful..

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't..

The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous dr….

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can..

Fashion is temporary; fashion is a race. What it's doing is giving you something that you say, "This is the outer wrapping of me." Style is something….

I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a mother, too. It's very simple. It….

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought..