Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.

All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.....For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for...and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.

Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

The more distortions we have the less attention we can pay to realizing our potential and self- actualization of our personality

We are advised to meditate on things that are true, lovely, noble, gracious and bring good report. These should form the basis of our thought pattern.

You know what all the plutonium can buy me?" "Yeah it'll buy you one hell of a funeral!" Angel says angrily to man who was behind everything!

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before

Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.

My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.

I like purple too. I looked up color psychology before doing any house painting, because I was curious what the colors I like mean. And purple is very royal and creative.

The best revenge in the world is success.