Christine Downing Quotes

Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.

We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.

There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise.

As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.