There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else’s to shield our fear.

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

Grief dares us to love once more.

Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what...

Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories...

To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don’t need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you...

Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.

How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy.

There are two important days in a woman’s life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.

Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward.

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.

My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

When one woman doesn’t speak, other women get hurt.

We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can’t stay there very long. Sooner or later you have to look at...

words are much stronger than I am.

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?

I do not write every day. I write to the questions and issues before me. I write to deadlines. I write out of my passions. And I write to make peace with my own contradictory...

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

What is it about the relationship of a mother that can heal or hurt us? Her womb is the first landscape we inhabit. It is here we learn to respond – to move, to listen,...

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness of each living thing in the meadow and forest.

The mind creates those things that exist.

Finding one’s voice is a process of finding one’s passion.

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

Not everything is meant for all to hear.

But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here.

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be...

We know the quality of another’s heart through her voice.

This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote,...

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see....

Respect is primary.

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no...

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

it’s no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.

Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing — faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

We mask our needs as the needs of others.

“It is not possible to satisfy women,” a friend said. “We are disturbed if we have children too young. Disturbed if we have then later. Disturbed if we don’t have children at all.”

Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf ’s tail as Peter did, and make...

Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

You’re losing yourself.

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.