Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go s….

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl..

You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the ear….

What neo-capitalism does so brilliantly is that it's always subdividing and dividing, so that people are never able to be joined in their numbers and….

When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us..

Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is….

When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift..

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue..

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being succ….

When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other..

An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fac….

I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimized in the telling of your story and are you fo….

If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world..

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet..

Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our he….

Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your ….

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back..

Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and….

I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism or racism or homophobia or transpho….

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body..

Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark, be part of this co….