Cathleen’s Reviews > When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice > Status Update
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“Conversation is the vehicle for change. We test our ideas. We hear our own voice in concert with another. And inside those pauses of listening, we approach new territories of thought. A good argument, call it a discussion, frees us. Words fly out of our mouths like threatened birds. Once released, they may never return. If they do, they have chosen a home and the bird-words are calmed into an ars poetica.”
— Feb 08, 2020 11:24AM
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Cathleen
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“To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters.”
— Feb 08, 2020 07:36AM
Cathleen
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“I don’t believe our fears ever leave us completely.” — in reference to her fear of public speaking related to a lisp she had as a child
— Feb 02, 2020 07:45AM
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“The ocean as mother is mesmerizing in her power, a creative force that can both comfort and destroy.”
— Feb 01, 2020 07:42AM
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“It is here I must have fallen in love with water, recognizing its power and sublimity, where I learned to trust that what I love can kill me, knock me down, and threaten to drown me with its unexpected wave. If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.”
— Feb 01, 2020 07:39AM
Cathleen
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“We all have our secrets. I hold mine. To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.”
— Feb 01, 2020 07:29AM
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“It is the province of mothers to preserve the myth that we are unburdened with our own problems.”
— Feb 01, 2020 07:21AM
