The spine should be empty so that energy moves up and down. I always felt this way as a child.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.
I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
I am rooted, but I flow.
Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have. . . other options.
If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.
I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land. . . to know how to nourish themselves. . . and to know how to connect with the community around them.
I owe a debt to America that I will never be able to repay.