“Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it.”

“I find it easier to claim that I am friends with a monkey rather than with a man.”

“While there will always be someone who may dislike you, there are others who will like you for who you are.”

“Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want.”

“Make sure your fun is not mocking someones pain and your enjoyment is not anothers suffering. The melody of your ears must not be the cries of a powerless.”

“Be an active bystander because sooner or later you or someone you love could be a victim too.”

“I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to...”

“You know, you're too pretty for me to leave you on the couch like that," he said, pulling me toward him. I didn't know that, but I did understand then that there was no such thing as safe, only saf...”

“Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious application of personal safety strategies. A woman should be able to walk down the street at 4 in the morning in nothing bu...”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.”

“The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yieldin...”

“We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials, and other people we are working with. Such work is unifying, healing. It brings us home from pri...”

“My life's work is to help people step into their God-given abilities and make a positive difference in their community.”

“In a world of knowledge and expertise, fame and fortune, status and ranks....nothing has the power to affect change as much as love and compassion.”