Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.