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

Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . .

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.

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

To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.