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Book: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
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  1. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    It is winter. Ravens are standing on a pile of bones -- black typeface on white paper picking an idea clean. It's what I do each time I sit down to write. What else are we to do with our obsessions? Do they feed us? Or are we simply scavenging our memories for one gleaming image to tell the truth of what is hunting us?'To write,' Marguerite Duras remarked, 'is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.
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  2. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.
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  3. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    I received my first tutorial on voice. Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.
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  4. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    Mother had one quilt square made by a friend of hers framed, and hung it in her bathroom, where she saw it first thing in the morning. When I asked her why this mattered, she said, "It represents how women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.
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  5. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    Beware of the charismatic wolf in sheep's clothing. There is evil in the world. You can be tricked.
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  6. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    Devil spelled backward is Lived.
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  7. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    Can you be inside and outside at the same time?I think this is where I live.I think this is where most women live.I know this is where writers live.Inside to write. Outside to glean.
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  8. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    I fear silence because it leads me to myself, a self I may not wish to confront. It asks that I listen. And in listening, I am taken to an unknown place. Silence leaves me alone in a place of feeling. It is not necessarily a place of comfort.
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  9. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    Good work is a stay against despair.
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  10. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    We can choose to move like water rather than be molded like clay. Life spirals in and then spirals out on any given day. It does not have to be one way, one truth, one voice. Nor does love have to be all or nothing. Neither does power. What is positive and what is negative is not absolute.
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  11. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    True eloquence has an edge, sharp and clean.
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  12. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    The courage to continue before the face of despair is the recognition that in those eyes of darkness we find our own night vision. Women blessed with death-eyes are fearless.
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