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“The shock of the real. For a little while we are again able to see, as the child sees, a world of marvels. For a few moments we discover that nothing can be taken for granted, for if this ring of stone is marvelous then all which shaped it is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible and mysterious things-in-themselves, is the most strange and daring of all adventures.”
― Desert Solitaire
― Desert Solitaire
“Like many Chinese, I was incapable of rational thinking in those days. We were so cowed and contorted by fear and indoctrination that to deviate from the path laid down by Mao would have been inconceivable. Besides, we had been overwhelmed by deceptive rhetoric, disinformation, and hypocrisy, which made it virtually impossible to see through the situation and to form an intelligent judgment.”
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“You have to love hair in order to love the vagina. You can’t pick the parts you want.”
― The Vagina Monologues
― The Vagina Monologues
“I do not understand how any one can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to. In the forest there is a constant stirring in the treetops, as though on the stillest days the breathing of the earth is yet audible…The universe breathed, and the world inside it breathe same breath. This was the cosmic life, with suns and moons to make it lovely. It was important only to keep close enough to the pulse to feel its rhythm, to know… one’s own minute living is a torn fragment of a larger cloth.
Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson”
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Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson”
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