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Stories are medicine.
The soul has no gender.
Nurture is like psychic Wheaties.
Dogs are the magicians of the universe.
Be wild; that is how to clear the river.
Failure is a greater teacher than success
God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?
Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.
A runner is real when she takes the first step.
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.
Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.
If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.
Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.
I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.
Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.
Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!
I was twice-born. I'm Mexican by nature and Hungarian by nurture.
I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.
You must become an activist if you are going to live the natural life.
When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.
Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.
That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul.
The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.
Latina women are proud to be called Mrs. That simply means that we have a family.
Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.
To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.
we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.
The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar.
I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.
If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time
To reasoned people, almost everything is understandable, but evil is forever incomprehensible.
Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.
If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.
It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.
Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.
When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.
You know the best thing about having a house? You get to plant whatever you want in the yard and watch it grow.
So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.
The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.
Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.
The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.
...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good comes of this is not yet listening.
Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered.
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.