The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.

Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain.

I don't think of myself as an American; I see myself as a human being.

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free.