I Think Being An Activist And An

If You Look At Capitalism And Patriarchy, They're Both Such Hierarchical, Competitive, Oneupmanship Systems. They've Trained Us All [to Think] That Power Means Having All The Goods Or Having The Most Money Or Having The Most Attention Or Having The Most Fame. That's Not The Power That Interests Me. Actually, The Deconstruction Of That Power Is What Interests Me.

I Think It Was A Realization Of This Cancer, An Understanding Of The Broader Implications Of What Cancer Is. The Greed, The Ravaging Of Lands And Seas For Profit, The Taking Of Things That Don't Belong To Us; What We've Done To The Environment In This Fast-paced, Careless Hunger. I Think All Of That Was Happening In My Body.

What We All Have To Know Is The Struggle Is Long. It's Long. It May Not End In Our Lifetimes. But The Struggle Is What Gives Our Lives Meaning And Purpose. I Tell People To Take Time Out Of Activism Every Day To Take Care Of Their Bodies, To Take Care Of Their Souls And Spirits.

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.

Trauma Dissociates Us From The Parts Of Our Body That Are Wounded, So We Have To Leave Our Whole Body. It's A Journey You Take Your Whole Life, That Coming Back In, Re-landing In Your Body, In Your Self, On The Earth. I Think One Of The Reasons It's Been So Easy, In A Way, For Us To Violate Both Women And The Earth Is This Profound Dissociation That Exists In Everyone.