- “You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output — how much you produce — not in terms of the quality of your life experiences.”
- “To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.”
- “To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.”
- “When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”
- “I think people don’t place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.”
- “Moisture and greeness have to do with innocence, love, heart, feelings and tears. All of the [fluids] in our body become moist when we are moved-we cry, we lubricate, we bleed, all of the numinous experiences of our bodies have to do with moisture. And it’s moisture that brings life to this planet, that is the cure for the desert experience and the cure for aridness.”
- “Whatever has crowded out growth needs to be recognized and removed.”
- “To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.”
- “We need to meditate on what is peaceful. Once we have ‘filled up’ in this way, we once again have an abundance of love to send out into the world.”
- “I believe that the thought that women together can change the world is emerging into the minds and hearts of many of us, and that the vessel for personal and planetary evolution is the circle with a spiritual center.”Before you can do something that you’ve never done, you have to be able to imagine it is possible.”
- “I think of affirmations and visualizations as tapping into the power of the imagination, which is a generator and transformer, a force that precedes and shapes who we become, and what we create and achieve.”
- “Whenever we attempt something new or difficult, we have to be able to imagine it before it becomes possible. It’s the combination of inspiration and perspiration that brings about tangible results.”
- “Listening, witnessing, role modeling, reacting, deepening, mirroring, laughing, crying, grieving, drawing upon experience, and sharing the wisdom of experience, women in circles support each other and discover themselves, through talk. Circles of women supporting each other, healing circles, wisdom circles, soul sister circles, circles of wisewomen, of clan mothers, of grandmothers. Circles of crones, circles of pre-crones, lifetime circles and ad hoc circles, even circles of women in cyberspace and the business place, circles are forming everywhere.”
- “Gloria Steinem has often noted that women tend to be more conservative when young, and become rebellious and radical as they grow older, while it’s the opposite for men. Women become fiercely compassionate crones when they are outraged at the suffering caused as much by indifference by those in authority as by the perpetrators.”
- “Compassion and anger come together for terrorized, abused, helpless, and neglected people, whose plight is considered of little importance because they have no power or value in a world where greed and power over others rather than concern for others is the ruling principle. Crones are not naïve or in denial about reality. When something in particular is an outrage, and doing something about it is a choice, a moment of truth occurs in which activists are born. The suffering of others or the feeling of Enough is enough! radicalizes older women.”
- “Strength to lead has to do with being trusted, and trust has to do with having qualities and experience needed for whatever the particular task is.”
- “I am a Feminist, who in recent years has made a point of saying so. Every honorable word that once was used to describe an empowered woman, or a man who supports or has compassion for the vulnerable, has been denigrated or trashed, and thus avoided. Feminist and Liberal, are recent casualties. In Crones Don’t Whine, I am working on redeeming another one of these once honorable labels.”
- “The women’s movement brought about extraordinary shifts in attitude and subsequent changes through women meeting together in consciousness-raising groups and supporting each other to take the actions that culminated in a movement.”
- “The Olympian deities exist as archetypal patterns in us. The Greek goddesses and gods provide us with images and names of psychological patterns, that when active in us help us to understand our priorities and behavior.”
- “If we become juicy crones and not merely older, then this is a time when we are wiser and more appreciative of the good that comes our way, including knowing how lucky we are to be alive and healthy.”
- “Before you can do something that you’ve never done, you have to be able to imagine it is possible.”
- “I think of affirmations and visualizations as tapping into the power of the imagination, which is a generator and transformer, a force that precedes and shapes who we become, and what we create and achieve. Whenever we attempt something new or difficult, we have to be able to imagine it before it becomes possible. It’s the combination of inspiration and perspiration that brings about tangible results.”
- “Whatever has crowded out growth needs to be recognized and removed.”
- “I think people don’t place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.”
- “I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one’s heart will be in it.”
