After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.

Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!

Disconnected from my feminine soul, I had also unknowingly forfeited my power to name sacred reality. I had simply accepted what men had named. Neither had I noticed that when women give this power away, it is rarely used to liberate and restore value to women. More often it is used to shore up and enhance the privileged position of men.