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The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others. —Shirley MacLaine— Life is a process of letting go, letting go of conditions we can’t control, letting go of people–watching them move out of our lives, letting go of times, places, experiences. Leaving behind anyone or anyplace […]
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The especial genius of women, I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. —Margaret Fuller— We are women, and we are moving, together and alone. We are moving into new images of ourselves. There is a healing power that comes from moving, from sharing one’s ideas and changing one’s self. […]
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We are born in innocence. Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed—these are corruptions. —Laura Z. Hobson— We are corrupted, to be a human […]
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. —Anas Nin— How aptly these words describe the woman so many of us were. Many activities were not attempted, courses weren’t taken, conversations weren’t initiated because we lacked confidence. […]
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I feel we have picked each other from the crowd as fellow-travelers, for neither of us is to the other’s personality the end-all and the be-all. —Joanna Field— We must look around at the people in our lives today, and know that we have something special to offer each of them, and they to us. […]
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Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really very frightening. —Gertrude Stein— Life is full of dangers and risks and challenges. We can choose to meet them fearfully or in a spirit of welcome. To choose fear, to say, “I won’t take that risk because I might lose,” is to prevent ourselves from ever winning. […]
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In a culture where approval/disapproval has become the predominant regulator of effort and position, and often the substitute for love, our personal freedoms are dissipated. —Viola Spolin— Wanting others to approve our efforts, our appearance, our aspirations and behavior is perfectly normal, certainly not unhealthy. However, needing the approval in order to proceed with our […]
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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming . . . This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it’s no longer so. I feel happy–deep down. All is well. —Katherine Mansfield— All is well. In the […]
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It isn’t sufficient to seek wholeness through men, it never was and it never will be for any woman, married or single. —Patricia O’Brien— Most of us were encouraged from childhood on to “find a husband.” The message, often subtle, was nonetheless there. And many of us did marry. However, no relationship carries a lifetime […]
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Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separateness the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination. —Jeraldine Sounders— We are one. We are connected, interdependent parts of the whole. We are not separate from each other except in the mind, in our false understanding of […]