Occupation: Poet Birth: December 25, 1972
I think one of the most radical things a girl can do is to own her body. And we learn so young not to own these bodies of ours..
I am too many flavors for one f***ing spoon. I want to erase the lines so I can be me. If we do not speak, who will?.
When you are doing seven shows a week, you have to take care of yourself. There are some moments when you cannot allow yourself to emotionally reenac….
There are those nights where you are just so emotionally present that you crack yourself open. And it works. And on the nights when you don't have it….
I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize me In this world where class….
You know, in Hollywood you know when somebody is getting pregnant. It's supposed to be this beautiful scene: the rays are coming in and you have thes….
Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold on to the better parts of my human se….
Women of color, particularly Black girls from economically challenged strati, we are told from the minute you start showing signs of being able to be….
I think women are deeply interested in a conversation around fertility. It's not a conversation just for one age group of women, a conversation if yo….
It's so funny the world we live in now. The years where you are most fertile, those are also the fertile years for career and personal growth. And so….
What's surprising to me now is that now that I'm talking to a lot of women about this, so many women are doing this. Straight women, lesbian women, b….
You start doing your research and realizing that the fertility rate for women drops considerably. And you're like, "Oh my God, now I want to get preg….
I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether it's a narrative memoir, bloggi….
Hungry people make the best revolutionaries. Because when you're hungry, it's easy to get angry about things that aren't right..