“Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.”

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.

In my marriages, I’d lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

It’s better to be interested than interesting.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you’re with them, you’re there and not thinking about what you’re gonna do tomorrow.

Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.

The people who did you wrong or who didn’t quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.

Shift your energy from protecting yourself from failure to squeezing the life out of life.

Let positivity be your shield.

We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.

We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

The religious soul finds in the heart of Jesus a secure refuge.