"People ask me why I am a feminist. Because I am a woman of freedom and equality and it is not possible to have freedom in the world when half of humanity has no rights. Because we are more than half of humanity. There are more women than men. This is not a fight of so-called "minorities.""

“They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now.”

“As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?”

“Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.”

“I missed a lot of good times, doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. There are certain mistakes I'd like to change, but I'm not going to trip on it to hard.”

Source : "Dogtown and Z-Boys". Documentary, www.imdb.com. January 19, 2001.

“It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.”

“I guess I also see meditation as part of healthy living. It definitely is important for me to find some mental stillness.”

Source : "Stephanie Ellis on being vegetarian, human trafficking, and taking ownership of your life". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

“The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.”

“The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.”