If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.

Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no true excuses. This is our life. Step forward. Maybe it's only for ten minutes. That's okay. To write feels better than all the excuses.

Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.