There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, 'My soul is my own,' and then embody it in her life, her spirituality, and her community is worth the risk and hardship.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

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

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees