In awareness of the inner conversation.

Be a little artsy and inarticulate.

I fainted in the street.

And that too is not going to increase my consciousness, my being.

Without even knowing, I ended up coming here.

Well, as for that, as long as I hold on to my consciousness... such thing won't ever happen.

Yes, there were eight men who defiled me, raped me, but that didn't go into my consciousness.

I lose consciousness after a while, and wake up in the cell.

Yes, and tell him to make me unconscious before I can think.

And it was as though my consciousness had shifted away from my normal perception of reality, where I'm the person on the machine having the experience, to some esoteric space where I'm witnessing myself having this experience.

I say these things because they are the essence of my Jewish consciousness and of my belief in the eternal and unimpeachable right of the people of Israel to the land of Israel.

I won't faint, Doctor... if you promise not to eat garlic again the night before an operation.

Because before the Vagina Monologues, I will say that 80 percent of my consciousness was closed off to what was really going on in this reality.

I will say that 80 percent of my consciousness was closed off to what was really going on in this reality, and that closing off closed off my vitality and my life energy.

And I looked down at my body and I thought, Whoa, I'm a weird looking thing. And it was as though my consciousness had shifted away from my normal perception of reality, where I'm the person on the machine having the experience, to some esoteric space where I'm witnessing myself having this experience.

Growing up in Macedonia in the 1980s, my awareness of global politics was very much influenced by pop music, as a number of A list artists during that era released huge hits addressing political issues, some of which were considered quite controversial at the time.