“The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics cultivated insensitivity, goal-orientated thinking, the prioritising of the material to compete.”

“My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship...”

“It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a womans love is no life at all.”

“There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me to open them, and through hiccoughs, trembling, I would hiss, dont touch me! as he moved to place...”

“In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.”

“For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Years Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember fe...”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“Do you suppose, gentlemen, that our children as they grow up and begin to reason can avoid such questions? No, they cannot, and we will not impose on them an impossible restriction. The sight of an...”

“Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into him...”

“All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.”

“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...”