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 Williams

Mots clés experimenting-with-voice testing-ideas



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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 Williams


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I 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 Williams

Mots clés speaking-up



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What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

Terry Tempest Williams

Mots clés evolution



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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 Williams

Mots clés authority



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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.

Terry Tempest Williams

Mots clés intuition abandonment self-betrayal



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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 Williams

Mots clés children



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We mask our needs as the needs of others.

Terry Tempest Williams

Mots clés memoir mask



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When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

Terry Tempest Williams

Mots clés silence censorship censor voice



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words are much stronger than I am.

Terry Tempest Williams

Mots clés words strength voice



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