Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

"Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf ’s tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world."
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"Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf ’s tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness of each living thing in the meadow and forest."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Respect is primary."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?"
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. 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
"There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"To write,” Marguerite Duras remarked, “is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Silence introduced in a society that worships noise is like the Moon exposing the night. Behind darkness is our fear. Within silence our voice dwells. What is required from both is that we be still. We focus. We listen. We see and we hear. The unexpected emerges."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"I have found what I need most to heal a broken bond is time together—the very thing I avoid is the thing most desired."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"When I said, “I am my mother, but I’m not,” I was saying my path would be my own."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see"
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see. If we refuse to face our shadow, it will project itself on someone else so we have no choice but to engage."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
"To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones. Words have a weight to them. How you choose to present them and to whom is a matter of style and choice."
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
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