Silence gives the proper grace to women
God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!
You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.
My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man. " When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.
Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
I believe there are two types of decision-makers - those who lead with their gut and those who make lists of pros and cons, and fully anticipate the consequences.