"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
— Anaïs Nin

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
— Gloria Steinem

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless
means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. "
— Paulo Freire

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."
— Howard Zinn

"feminism is for everybody"
— bell hooks

"When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine)

"The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body and flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms and clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.

If such a consciousness truly is set loose in the world, nothing will be the same. It will free us to be in a sacred body, on a sacred planet, in sacred communion with all of it. It will infect the universe with holiness. We will discover the Divine deep within the earth and the cells of our bodies, and we will lover her there with all our hearts and all our souls and all our minds."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Dance of the Dissident Daughter)

"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
— Anne Lamott

"All we can do is go around telling the truth."
— Carson McCullers (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)