Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.
Women don’t make the decisions in the media. Even if you see women on camera, they have to answer to the person upstairs, which is mostly men. Women only hold 3% of the decision-making offices in the media.
Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.
So much conspires to silence us – because our truths are inherently subversive.
Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the ’other side.
You know, you’re only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren’t okay, you’re not good.
The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.
Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women – and men, but mostly women – understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.
Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.
In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.
Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.
Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I’ve been able to use my life as a lesson.
Get over the feeling that the two words don’t go together – women and power. The fact is, if we don’t put the two together and don’t understand how power changes complexion in the hands of women, then we’re not going to make it. We have to own our personal power.
When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can’t quite get there, that’s when you’re better.
All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
You can do yoga and be thinking about going shopping. The goal is kind of like meditation, is to be totally present in your body in the moment. That’s when the most profound effects of yoga can happen. That’s what I urge people to try to do. It’s very important to be in your body.
I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn’t otherwise.
When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.
Well, what is a relationship? It’s about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being able to strengthen the other in their areas of vulnerability, and vice versa. You need each other. You complete each other, passion and romance aside.