Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.

You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside

My mother's life was way too heavy for me.

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

I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding ritual. It never occurred to me how odd it was that women, who have presided over the domain of food and feeding for thousands of years, were historically and routinely barred from presiding over it in a spiritual context. And when the priest held out the host and said, "This is my body, given for you," not once did I recognize that it is women in the act of breastfeeding who most truly embody those words and who are also most excluded from ritually saying them.

The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.