Mary Pipher Quotes

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• People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We…
• With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.
• In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.
• Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
• Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.
• Girls who stay true to themselves manage to find some way to respect the parts of themselves that are spiritual. They work for the betterment…
• Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches…
• Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.
• Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.
• The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.
• Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are dead wrong. Their daughters live…
• Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive
• Many young women are less whole and androgynous than they were at age ten. They are more appearance-conscious and sex-conscious. They are quieter, more fearful…
• Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.
• All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.
• One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.
• We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of…
• True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows. Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing…
• Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls…
• Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say…

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