Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women.

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

The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity, can cause to be set in motion...Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.

It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.

If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.