Creatrix: she who makes

One experience does not invalidate another, as women have so often been taught, but rather each adds richness and diversity.

We come from a long line of women whose creative needs have not been given the time and space they need to flourish. We have untold privileges and freedoms in comparison to our mothers and grandmothers, but still we have grown up not seeing women’s work exhibited amongst the Great Masters of Western culture, not reading works by our sisters in scho

I am aware that this means that parts of the book will make you uncomfortable too, depending on what has been suppressed in your own life and expression.

We spend our time looking after others, attending to their needs, working hard, earning money. We do it consciously and unconsciously…not just because we have to, but because it is safer to.

Advisor that you want to be an artist or actor and chances are she gives you a tight smile and tries to steer you into a safe, known career: teacher or arts therapist. Something conservative. Careful. With a reliable pension. Overtly choosing to be a professional artist from the outset is quite rare. Few of us actively choose The Creative Way as ou

Our culture teaches us about Art as a commodity, and celebrity as something that goes along with it. It has little to teach about creativity, the lived process, the reality…

slow down the moment so as to find our way back into it. Day Schildkret, Morning Altars

So many of us are longing to partake in these raw, hard-to-articulate discussions about the experiences of creativity, spirituality, sexuality and birth-giving that shape every layer of our beings.

All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. Without them, our lives get made up for us by other people. Ursula le Guin