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

The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.

Nobody should go through life without falling in love.

We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

I felt a trembling along my skin, a treaveling current that moved up my spine, down my arms, pulsing out from my fingertips. I was practically radiating. The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.