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Here I share my favorite quotes from women featured in my most recent books as well as quotes from well-known women who inspire me. Whose words encourage and motivate you?
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Tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light…. Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to like at the edge of a town that cannot bear your company. |
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I don't think you can prepare for your older years, but I would say to do as much as you can now. Don't retire too late. By the time I retired at eighty, my husband was sick and then we couldn't travel together. Go while you can. Try everything. Be active. And always do something different. At fifty, I started a new career teaching at a liberal arts college. That opened a whole new world to me. |
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Question everything. Look around to see how many options or choices you have. I didn’t know I had options until I got to college. This was just the way it was. It’s easier now. Stay open and listen to things you might think you can’t believe in. Other people’s truths are true to them. Find your own truths.
And learn to like yourself. Find what’s beautiful about yourself. Don’t compare yourself to a media image. Look within.
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This community is rich with vibrant, creative women. They show me that beauty can emerge at any stage of our lives, and especially as we age. These are women who have composed unusual and yet grounded lives, women who carefully consider the choices and decisions they face, and who support each other in their creative work and lives. We are witnesses and examples for each other. |
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How do I grow older and remain myself—or rather, how in growing older do I become more truly myself, and how is that expressed in what I do or say or contribute? |
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It’s never too late to follow your dreams. Allow yourself to go after the things you long for or you’ll die never having done them….Even if someone tries to rain on your parade, you have to follow your dream. If you make a difference in one person’s life—and that includes your own—it all will have been well worth it. |
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There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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