Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

The soul has no gender.

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

Latina women are proud to be called Mrs. That simply means that we have a family.

When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable kinship with the wild feminine, a relationship which may have become ghostly from neglect, buried by over-domestication, outlawed by the surrounding culture, or no longer understood anymore. We may have forgotten her names, we may not answer when she calls ours, but in our bones we know her, we yearn toward her, we know she belongs to us and we to her.