It is important to remember all true change begins at the margins and moves toward the center. This does not make the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The question I'm constantly asking myself is: what are we afraid of? I think it's important for us to follow that line… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind, as Vaclav Havel says, "an orientation of the spirit." And… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image