
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
–Sharon Salzberg
Poet, writer, editor, teacher, blogger, mentor, meditator.
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
–Sharon Salzberg
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.
–Sharon Olds
Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.
–May Sarton
It’s a hard time to be human. We know too much and too little.
–Ellen Bass
Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)
is the human voice,
and are we not of interest to each other?
Elizabeth Alexander
Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest…It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I suggest that the poets don’t hide. That they scream. That they confront. That they bellow and resist.
–Patricia Smith
Where there is a woman there is magic.
–Ntozake Shange
To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.
–June Jordan
A person who isn’t reminded several times a day about the implications of the color of her skin has time to consider the implications of other things.
–Camille Dungy