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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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The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.
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I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.
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The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.
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Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.
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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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I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a conspiracy against higher thoughts.
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This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.
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