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How come we have money to kill but no money to feed or heal? How come we have money to destroy but no money for art and schools? The

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything.

I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

I think the human species is very suicidal.

Decide whether you want to be liked or admired.

What does your vagina smell like?' ANSWER: 'My husband's face.

If overthrowing some five thousand years of patriarchy seems like a big order, just focus on celebrating each self-respect step along the way

Wanting to fall in love and being totally unable to trust, hungering for connection and always finding it claustrophobic.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.

I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.

I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

What I'm really interested in is freedom.

Stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

I am an emotional I am an emotional, devotional, incandotional creature.

The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948
on a five year old girl.

I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

We must stop being polite and behaved, and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission.'

It became a kind of passion. Discovering the key, unlocking the vagina's mouth, unlocking this voice, this wild song.

My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

Women secretly love to talk about their vaginas. They get very excited, mainly because no one has ever asked them before.

Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?

I think to be cut off from your heart is the greatest tyranny in the world.

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are,

I'd stop calling it "chemotherapy." I'd call it "transformational juice." Infusion suites would become "transformational suites" or "journey rooms."

The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.

The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.

I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it's that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and humor, people are drawn to it.

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

Slavery is back
but never went away

It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

I had always thought of my vagina as an anatomical vacuum randomly sucking up particles and objects from the surrounding environment.

Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.

I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other people.

Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.

I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.

What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.

When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

I wake up every day and I think, 'I'm breathing! It's a good day.'

Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.

When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

For the most part, political correctness doesn't exist here.
- Toby, Marymount Manhattan College

I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing handstands.

I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.

Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.

If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.

Geography does not define you - love does.

I really want to help stop violence toward women.

For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.

The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

When you listen to other women's stories you begin to understand your own better and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

I did not want to see how careless this whole system is for so many, how easy it is to fall through the cracks.

That we find freedom, aliveness and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us but from what dissolves, reveals and expands us.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.

The love is all around us. I made a life of love.

People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.

Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.

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?