Debbie

“Because it’s time for us to rise up and take back our role as caretakers and stewards not just of the land but of the children, too. I think a lot of women are doing this now, with more homeschooling, with community projects, with educational projects that operate a little bit outside the norms of our patriarchal education system.”
― Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

“Sometimes, if you have grown up in certain ways, a fear of being seen to fail can outweigh the personal cost of continuing to live in impossible circumstances.”
― Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

“We can possess all the fine goods that our civilisation has to offer us; we can have important jobs, and social status, and tone our bodies on all the latest machines – but without a sense of belonging to the world, we feel empty and our lives lack meaning.”
― Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

“We are not separate from this Earth; we are a part of it, whether we fully feel it in our bodies yet or not.”
― Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging