The character I've created, Christine, is mainly the first attempt for me to escape all the secret injunctions we have as girls all the time. Like, be pretty but be polite. Don't take too much space. All those things that didn't mean anything to me. I just decided to turn them around with my character.
Speaking truth to power is never going to be easy.
I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
At a certain point, when there's a barrier between you and what's right, eventually you have to decide you're not going to allow yourself to be subjugated.
I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.
One can't allow oneself to be bullied into abandoning one's dream.
I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.
