The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.

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

History tended to repeat itself. Why should her past be any different?

You cannot betray others without betraying your inner positive self in the process.

Service is a selfless deed.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

We are comfortable in this environment. Why not make ourselves comfortable over there?.

Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.

The Republican Party is no longer the Republican Party.

God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.

To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich