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A woman must have money
and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as
fate.
Carl Gustav Jung
Standing alone today demands even more courage and strength than it did
in former cultures. From infancy, children have been programmed to
perform. Rather than living from their own needs and feelings, they
learn to assess situations in order to please others. Without an inner
core of certainty grounded in their own musculature, they lack the inner
resources to stand alone. Pummeled by mass media and peer group
pressures, their identity may be utterly absorbed by collective
stereotypes. In the absence of adequate rites of passage, ad-men become
the high priests of an initiation into the addictions of consumerism.
Marion Woodman
The way of the mystic and the way of the artist
are very much alike, except that the mystic does not have a craft.
The craft holds the artist to the world,
and the mystic goes through his psyche into the transcendent...
Joseph Campbell
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right
to grow.
Alice Walker
The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as
you cry.
Maya Angelou
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Do not open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Rumi
You are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing
more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
Rita Mae Brown
Beauty is eternity gazing
at itself in a mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
Life is either a daring
adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a
superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is
not
attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy
purpose.
Helen Keller
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
He who binds to himself a
joy
Doth the winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity's sun rise
William Blake
Without an understanding
of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship
between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual
suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.
Marion Woodman
It doesn't matter who my
father was. It matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm
not
sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better,
then
what on Earth is it for?
Alice Walker
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his
own ends, but one who allows art to realize its supreme purpose through
him.
Carl Jung
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.
Anais Nin
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The
fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
This is love: to fly
toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First
to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Rumi
We must be willing to get
rid of the life we've planned, so as to
have the life that is awaiting us.... The old skin has to be shed before
the
new one is to come.
Joseph Campbell
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in
which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing
which
you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If we fail to nourish our
souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning. The
creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the
soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living.
Marion Woodman
Pain nourishes courage. You cannot be brave if you have only had
wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother--the blacker she is
the
more us she is--and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to
make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father
figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing
them all.
Alice Walker
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
Life's a
bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable
combination,
as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou
Too few is as many as too many.
Gertrude Stein
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
Rita Mae Brown
I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am
grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the
loss.
Rita Mae Brown
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until
they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
I write emotional algebra.
Anais Nin
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more
painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
A friend is a second self.
Aristotle
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then
you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's
worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
Colette
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some
of the originality.
Beatrix Potter
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
Emily Dickinson
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone de Beauvoire
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous;
novelty disturbs and repels.
Simone de Beauvoire
I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human
possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make
themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
Gloria Steinem
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much
doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude Stein
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.....
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, to be gorgeous,
talented, and fabulous. Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that others won't feel insecure around you.
We are born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
And as we let our light shine, we consciously give others
permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson - used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 Inaugural
Speech
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