The people who did you wrong or who didn’t quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.
I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they’re apt to encounter love.
I wasn’t a hippie and I wasn’t even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.
My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW’s are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.
I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it’s metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ died and interpreted by specific groups. I read the gospels that aren’t included in the Bible. These make me feel good about calling myself a Christian.
Christ was the first feminist and because of that I’ve learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.
When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won’t be invading countries, we won’t be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.
I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.
When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed.
Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.
Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they’ve got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn’t happen.
I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.
As I started getting older, I realized, ‘I’m so happy!’ I didn’t expect this! I wasn’t happy when I was young.
I don’t want my wrinkles taken away – I don’t want to look like everyone else.
The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child’s life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child’s resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.
I think the entire world is going to be united against us.
A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.