“Books are a friend, books are an escape, books are a means to empowerment and books are a means to understanding yourself better and in a world around you. They are everything.”

I am willing to go to bed each night at peace with myself.

I think it’s so much sexier to be understated. It’s more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way.

Self-education is an essential part of any anti-racist journey, and reading has always been a huge part of my personal learning.

Our fears find us and force us to confront them over and over again.

People associate feminism with hate – with man hate – and that’s really negative.

There are incredible documentaries that tackle the issue of racial justice.

All of us are responsible for creating change, whatever industry you work in.

One thing we can all do to honour the struggle for racial justice in the US is to interrogate, understand and dismantle the racist structures of our own countries.

I am willing to be my biggest, bestest, most powerful self.

As women, we all face our own unique challenges, but we stand together on these steps today as a symbol of our determination and our commitment to progress.

As women, we all face our own unique challenges, but we stand together on these steps today as a symbol of our determination and our commitment to progress.

I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong.

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That’s it, that simple.

Feminism is not here to dictate to you.

I’m excited about the aging process. I’m more interested in women who aren’t perfect. They’re more compelling.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.