I was not rebelling by smoking dope or drinking, I was testing ideas. I was experimenting with voice, what I could say and still be heard in an atmosphere of prescribed truths.
Terry Tempest WilliamsTags: experimenting-with-voice testing-ideas
The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.
Terry Tempest WilliamsI take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meet--within the chambers of a quivering heart.
Terry Tempest WilliamsTags: speaking-up
What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?
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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.
Terry Tempest WilliamsTags: authority
For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . .
When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.
Tags: intuition abandonment self-betrayal
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.
Terry Tempest WilliamsTags: children
We mask our needs as the needs of others.
Terry Tempest WilliamsWhen silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.
Terry Tempest WilliamsTags: silence censorship censor voice
words are much stronger than I am.
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