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When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.

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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to the truth. The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.
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If a man knew what a woman never forgets, he would love her differently.
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I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.
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It is where we embrace our questions. . . . Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions?
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When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.
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There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
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I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.
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I don't think of myself as an American I see myself as a human being.
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Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.
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I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.
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