“But singing isnt just about belting it out, is it? Its not just who has the most wobble or the highest note, no, its about phrasing, and being delicate, and getting just the right feeling from a so...”

“I'd decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what.”

“She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isnt time for anything else.”

“I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.”

“The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body and flee earth with its constan...”

“... the effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with sp...”

“I'm a queen with or without a king. Chasing anything is beneath me. Until you're ready to put away childish things and be my man, my king, someone I can trust to shepard my soul to the Almighty I h...”