The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.
I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.
It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.
Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers, offering money to tell stories. They call friends of mine. I'd just like for them to just. . . don't badger us. Don't scrutinize us. We have children and they have to live, too. It's not fair.
We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough
My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.