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When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.
Terry Tempest Williams
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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world.
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To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.
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I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.
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