“I think it's very important to mention Elise, that even if a woman feels permission to be angry, that anger is such a tricky mischievous emotion that it's so difficult to know what our anger means or what to do with it. So we may know that we’re angry and anger activates us to, to act, to take a position, to do something, but our anger does not tell us what the real issue is, who is responsible for what, what is the best way to proceed with our anger…”

“What we’ve been told is simply a false story of our past, of our present, and most importantly today, the possibilities for our future.”

“Before our boys have learned to read, they have already read the stoic code of masculinity and are conforming to it.”

“I feel like women are stuck. They're stuck between diet culture, which I think many of us reject this idea that we're supposed to be thinner, obedient, smaller, take up less space and have these unrealistic standards for how we're supposed to look. And then we also have the fat acceptance movement. And what I like to do is to position myself in the middle where the focus is on metabolic health.”

“For so long, feminism has been understood in a dominant frame as the fight for equality between the sexes. Full stop. Feminism means you support gender equality and you support women. And that's the end of the story. But for almost 200 years, there have been so many women pushing back and saying, if we only look at gender, we're actually marginalizing the experiences of a huge portion of women.”

“We as a generational cohort are coming of age where we simultaneously have more awareness of life...and at the same time understand our existential precariousness. How on earth do we hold all this at the same time?”

“Do you want to continue to live out the patterns of your childhood? Or do you want to make different choices? Are you programmed or are you self-determining?

“Humanity is messy, each of us starts with ourselves, it's horribly messy and then multiply that times millions. And that's an incredible, lovely mess.”