Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change."
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"CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Your voice is the wildest thing you own,” Brooke says to me. “And you’re giving it away. You can’t see it. Your obsession is blinding you.” He is angry. He is talking in shorthand. “You’re losing yourself."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Once you know that you have a voice,” Louis said, “it’s no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"We know the quality of another’s heart through her voice."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Finding one’s voice is a process of finding one’s passion."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Not everything is meant for all to hear."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Conversation is the vehicle for change. We test our ideas. We hear our own voice in a concert with another. And inside those pauses of listening, we approach new territories of thought. A good argument, call it a discussion, frees us. Words fly out of our mouths like threatened birds. Once released, they may never return. If they do, they have chosen home and the bird-worms are calmed into an ars poetica."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Can you be inside and outside at the same time?I think this is where I live. I think this is where most women live. I know this is where writers live. Inside to write. Outside to glean."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"My grandmother simply shook her head and said, "You know what you saw. The bird doesn't need to be counted, and neither do you."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?"
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"We mask our needs as the needs of others."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Did I have the courage to forge a path"
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Agitation gives birth to creation."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
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