I Came Out Of The Nine-hour Surgery

I Think We Have To Get Bolder. Why After Fukushima Didn't We All Go Out And Shut Down All The Nuclear Power Plants And Stay There Until It Happened?

Why Aren't We Looking At The Causes Of Breast Cancer? Why Aren't We Spending Our Energy On Looking At What We're Doing To The Earth? On The Pollutants We're Putting Into The Earth? And The Pesticides We're Putting Into The Earth? What We're Releasing Into The Air? Instead, We Just Cut Off More Organs! That's Where Metaphor Comes Into It - Not Even Metaphor As Much As Reality.

We Have To Know People Who Are Outside Of Our Own Circle, We Have To Reach Out To People We Don't Know, We Have To Protect People Who Are In Tremendous Danger. And We Also Have To Not Get Burned Out And Let Our Fear And Anxiety And Depression Sink Us. So There's Lots Of Things We Have To Do Right Now!

I Think Being An Activist And An Artist Is An Interesting Contradiction, Because So Often They Are At Odds With One Another. When You Write As An Artist You Have To Clean The Palate Of Your Own Politics In Creating Characters And Activism Is Kind Of The Exact Opposite.

For Me, So Much Of My Life Has Been This Attempt To Find My Way Back Into My Body. I Tried Various Forms, From Promiscuity, To Eating Disorders, To Performance Art. And I Think It Wasn't Until I Got Cancer, Where I Was Suddenly Being Pricked And Ported And Chemoed And Operated On, That I Suddenly Just Became Body. I Was Just A Body. And It Was In That, In That Finally Landing In Myself That I Really Discovered The World In My Body.