I wanted each different Chelsea to be able to navigate her own world without having to also speak to a larger narrative.
Ask for 100% of what you want 100% of the time.
I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.
Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.
It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.
The eyes are the landing strip to the heart.
All human behavior is either an act of love or a cry for love.
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
Forget about what the technology is. Just understand the motivation behind it.
The interesting thing about the religious component, for me, is that Jesus hardly mentions sex at all. He's pretty interested in the poor, he's pretty interested in selling your worldly goods and storing up riches in heaven. However, religious fundamentalists have made it all about sex, and that's like saying, "Look at the sex and we're just not going to talk about what you may be doing in a financial way that is sinful. "
That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Yeah, usually I'd just smile.