The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.

Today, the reason we haven't found our grail, the key to who we are as women, is because we look for it in worlds of false power, the very worlds that took it away from us in the first place. Neither men nor work can restore our lost scepter. Nothing in this world can take us home. Only the radar in our hearts can do that, and when it does, ... 'We will light up like lamps, and the world will never be the same again.'

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming.

We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.