The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will developing the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid of the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power through fresh insights and opportunities for re-visioning one's life and self anew.

Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.

If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.

Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.

When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is allowed its freedom, the healthy instinct to flee is hugely diminished, and the creature stays put instead.