“There was a love that had always existed between women. It would continue to exist. We were propagating that love. It was radiating out of my apartment windows, through the city, across the canyons, over the hills, and into the night sky.”
Source: Milk Fed
“The transfiguration of anger is a movement from rage to outrage. Rage implies an internalized emotion, a tempest within, Rage, or what might be called untrasnfigured anger, can become a calcified bitterness. What rage wants and needs is to move outward toward positive social purpose, to become a creative force or energy…
Outrage is love’s wild and unacknowledged sister.”
Source: The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
“Ma had said women need one another more than they need men.”
Source: Where the Crawdads Sing
“I can manage," said Frodo. "I must.”
Source: The Return of the King
“I never much understood the point of the world of men. How they fed off each other. How they motivated themselves. I mean, I got the purpose, but I navigated that world the way an astronaut would an alien landscape. Trying not to breathe the same air. Which was impossible, of course.”
Source: Hummingbird Salamander
“I began to envision myself differently, to experience The Feminine not as wounded, but as something beautiful, exuberant, wise and unspeakably valuable.”
Source: The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
“The women over there, heads bent together, were obviously gossiping. The men over there, heads bent together, were obviously discussing something they thought was very important and that they had great influence over, but which, of course, was also just gossip.”
Source: Part of Your World
“Third-eye magic? Only man need a third eye. Woman fine with two, sometimes one.”
Source: Moon Witch, Spider King
“That she can reform a rake," said Poirot, "has always been one of women's dearest illusions!”
Source: The Labours of Hercules
“A Magdalene Laundry is not a building. It is a threat.”
Source: Other Words for Smoke