A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.

Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.

While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only the archetype itself can withstand such projections such as ever-able, all giving, eternally energetic. We may try to emulate these, but they are ideals, not achievable by humans, and not meant to be. Yet the trap requires that women exhaust themselves trying to achieve these unrealistic levels. To avoid the trap, one has to learn to say 'Halt' and 'Stop the music,' and of course mean it.

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

A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.