I believe there is complete equality between men and women.
Faith reminds us that change is always possible.
Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.
A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.
What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.
Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.
The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough.
What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?
I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake.
We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.
Nothing I've worked on has been asked this much of me to put it on the page [like Paper Girls].