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“Late in May as the light lengthens
toward summer the young goldfinches
flutter down through the day for the first time
to find themselves among fallen petals
cradling their day’s colors in the day’s shadows
of the garden beside the old house”
― Garden Time
toward summer the young goldfinches
flutter down through the day for the first time
to find themselves among fallen petals
cradling their day’s colors in the day’s shadows
of the garden beside the old house”
― Garden Time

“Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.”
― Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run: A Call to Those Who Would Save the Earth
― Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run: A Call to Those Who Would Save the Earth

“There is no pain in my life that has not been given value by the alchemy of creative attention.”
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

“It is through the collaboration of all these factors, of course, that patriarchy is enforced: an elegant machinery whose pistons fire silently inside their own minds, and whose gleaming gears we mistake for our own jewelry.”
― Girlhood
― Girlhood
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