“To honor our grief, to grant it space and time in our frantic world, is to fulfill a covenant with soul—to welcome all that is, thereby granting room for our most authentic life.”
― The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
― The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
“How is it that the world keeps going, breathing in and out unchanged, while in my soul there is a permanent scattering?”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
“Sensitive children come to be called “difficult” because adults have trouble understanding their temperament and because parenting methods that work with other children are frustratingly inadequate with this group.”
― Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
― Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
“Life requires that you fight for yourself. No one can fight your battles or take on the weight of your problems for you. It's something you to have to do for yourself. But you never have to fight by yourself.”
― The Memories We Painted
― The Memories We Painted
“To me feminism is not simply a struggle to end male chauvinism or a movement to ensure that women will have equal rights with men; it is a commitment to eradicating the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels--sex, race, and class, to name a few--and a commitment to reorganizing U.S. society so that the self-development of people can take precedence over imperialism, economic expansion, and material desires.”
― Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
― Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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