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

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.

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

All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them

I was going to have to face the man who'd destroyed my kingdom, and the boy who was the reason.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.

I rather like the idea of defying death.

Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation

The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.

I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.

He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.

Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning.