Mary Pipher Quotes
With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.
The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.
I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?
we are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk.
One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.
Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.
When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.
How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change.
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.
Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The parents' job is to protect, the daughter's job is to explore.
Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.
Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.
I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.
Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.
If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.
We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.
Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.