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Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

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.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

James Fenton

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Once you know that you have a voice,” Louis said, “it’s no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.

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.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

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.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estima...

David Ricardo

When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else's to shield our fear.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

My grandmother simply shook her head and said, "You know what you saw. The bird doesn't need to be counted, and neither do you.

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

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.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?

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.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.

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.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

It is not possible to satisfy women," a friend said. "We are disturbed if we have children too young. Disturbed if we have then later. Disturbed if we don't have children at all.

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.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice