We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
I don’t like the word ‘calculated’ because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.
Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
It’s better to be interested than interesting.
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren’t taught that become soggy.
Women are rising. It’s going to get harder before it gets easier, but we can do it if we realize that we have the power. Women will always be the leaders of change.
If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
I’ll smoke pot every now and then. I cannot see a movie on pot. The number of movies I’ve seen thinking, ‘This is probably the best I have ever seen,’ and then I’ll see it again and think, ‘What was I thinking?’
We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.
Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.