Occupation: Playwright Birth: May 25, 1953
Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we ….
I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force.….
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 ….
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….
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….
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….
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….
In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl..
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….
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….
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..
When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us..
When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet..
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….
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….
One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body..
If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world..
Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back..