When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.

I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought with schizophrenia, wouldn't we?

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

Not everything is meant for all to hear.

In Utah alone, ten million acres are open for business. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest. It is about the oil and gas corporations' best interests.

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.