“If we figure out the supports and infrastructure to make all of that possible – and it is completely within reach.”

Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.

It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most.

Movements of people create change – not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

Living longer is about loving longer, learning longer, teaching longer, connecting longer.

One thing I’ve learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.

We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce… and yet we’re still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor.

When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture.

So many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we’ve got a lot of work to do.

And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I’ve always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.

And we live longer. Our stuff is not “special interest” stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.

I’ve always believed it’s important to make the invisible visible.

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

An economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes.

Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care.

It really moved the dial politically. That’s what is needed in the women’s movement – a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.

I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy.

Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.

One’s life completely changes based on the rain. After the monsoon, because the dust settles, one can see further and so it feels like one’s eyesight has improved or that one is living in a different country where there is more light.

You know, to be completely disgusted with injustice to the point that you will have to take some huge leaps of faith. And it may take one person leading many.

It’s when I’m literally completely consumed by the story-telling and the actor or actress is evoking something in me.

I think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.

It’s good to have fresh ingredients, but let’s not completely ignore some frozen ingredients.

I think just being together and talking would be nice. But when we grow old, when greed and vanity will be completely gone, when I will be tired of singing can I return to that place too?

The biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.