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Marie Howe’s New and Selected Poems “The Meadow:”
… Bedeviled,
human, your plight, in waking,
is to choose from the words that even now sleep on your tongue,
and to know that tangled among them and
terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.
Try as culture, politics, religion, or families might to eradicate it, this knowledge of our innermost Self — intuitive and rich and wild — is always with us. We may have forgotten how to express it or we might stutter when we try, but the deep song of our authentic voice still resonates within.
Judy Reeves • Wild Women, Wild Voices
A woman’s life may die away in the fire of self-hatred for complexes can bite hard and, at least for a time, successfully frighten her away from coming too near the work or life that matters to her.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
“Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes.”
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
“As you enter positions of trust and power,” Toni Morrison wrote, “dream a little before you think.”
Elizabeth Lesser • Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
Luciano De Crescenzos observation that “we are all angels with only one wing, we can only fly while embracing each other” is just as true for the leader as for any of the others.
Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Maria Popova • The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"