I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Sunset is the saddest light there is.

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

I believe that art has incredible power.

It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty.

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

You can't compare any job or any friendship or anything to another. I think if you do, it's kind of a recipe for disaster.