I Think When People Begin To Tell

Women Not Only Get Violated, But Then We Take On The Struggle To End It Too... As A Man, How Could The Destruction Of Women Be Anything To You But Devastating? Think About The Fact That The Women Being Hurt Are Your Mothers, Daughters, Sisters.

But My Body Was Telling Its Story. I Have Read A Lot Of Stuff About Cancer. I Needed This Book. I Wish I'd Had This Book When I Had Cancer. I Wanted Someone To Be Talking To Me About "fart Floors." I Wanted Somebody Telling Me What It Was Like To Have A Colostomy Bag. I Felt So Alone. And If You're A Person Who's Been Traumatized By Past Abuse, It's So Potentially Re-traumatizing. You Slip Right Into "oh My God, This Is The Only Person This Has Happened To Before" Mentality: "i'm Especially Bad And I Have Especially Bad Cancer..."

The Verb That's Been Enforced On Girls Is To Please. Girls Are Trained To Please...i Want Us All To Change The Verb. I Want The Verb To Be Educate, Or Activate, Or Engage, Or Confront, Or Defy, Or Create.

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.

Stop Trying To Fix Your Body. It Was Never Broken.