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“A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see”
― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

tags: birth, blinded, blindness, dark, darkness, light, see, seeing, shadows

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“I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

tags: birds, prayer

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“When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

tags: abuse, hurt, pain, voice, women

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“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words.”
― Terry Tempest Williams

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“Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

tags: language, silence, women, writing-whisper

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