Resistance is the secret of joy!
The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.
I realized I was a country person – I’m just not used to small spaces.
I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‘known for’ is what I am.
We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone’s hard-earned sweetness and light.
Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they’d rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.
Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
As you know from school, it’s when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you’ve done your best.
I don’t know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
You can love yourself spiritually, physically – in almost any way that anybody else can.