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

Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.

I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation and suffering they caused in people's lives." (from 'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter'.)

There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.

That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133.

Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning.

I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.