2,332 quotes found
“One female who knows what to dois better than a thousand males who don't.”
“When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for...”
“Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.”
“Having been fucked up by my family and community, Ill never know where my gayness came from, and where it ends and neurosis begins. But as a gay person I know Im a vital element in our civilization.”
“Reflections they give meThat my mirror does notThey know the new meNot the old meThat I am not”
“I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means someone's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.”
“I stand in my own power now, the questions of permission that I used to choke on for my every meal now dead in a fallen heap, and when they tell me that I will fall, I nod. I will fall, I reply, an...”
“There is an unspoken pact that women are supposed to follow. I am supposed to act like I constantly feel guilty about being away from my kids. (I don't. I love my job.) Mothers who stay at home are...”
“I love saying yes and I love saying please. Saying yes doesnt mean I dont know how to say no, and saying please doesnt mean I am waiting for permission. Yes please sounds powerful and concise. Its ...”
“now I'm blinking in a new gloamingand all I see as I'm stretched low down hereis a world of women flat on their frozenfaces. we are the ground itself, corporealcarpet of cells, softness calloused h...”
“Its a struggle for me to remain open," she admits. "To not shut down because Im defensive or scared or maybe my ego is getting in the way. And the other side of that is just believing that I belong...”
“I often look to men to model behavior," she goes on after a pause. "Not because I want to squelch whats feminine about me, but because sometimes I want a little more action, a little less feeling i...”
“And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.”
“Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)”
“That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things. God does impose his will on us, rather he makes it known and allows us to choose if we ...”
“Stone, steel, dominions pass,Faith too, no wonder;So leave alone the grassThat I am under.”
“It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensit...”
“The only sweeter than union is reunion.”
“The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into somethin...”
“Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.”
