“Finding one’s voice is a process of finding one’s passion.” — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“We know the quality of another’s heart through her voice.” — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“To write,” Marguerite Duras remarked, “is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.” — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else's to shield our fear.” — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Once you know that you have a voice,” Louis said, “it’s no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I feel that within the Mormon culture there is a tremendous amount of fear - of women's voices, of questioning of authority,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We find our voice, we lose our voice, we retrieve it, honor it, and hopefully, learn how to share it with others… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Your voice is the wildest thing you own,” Brooke says to me. “And you’re giving it away. You can’t see it. Your… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To hold silence and to be silenced are two very different experiences. And so another theme emerges, that of light and shadow.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one's own life experience. Not in terms of chapters, per se,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Even as a woman who has a voice in the world, I struggle to find it, to use it, to keep it,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we."… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
“I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
“To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need to be… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
