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“To address a person as 'mother' is to pay the highest ritual respect.”
“The tribes see women variously, but they do not question the power of femininity.”
“My mother told me stories all the time, though I often did not recognize them as that.”
“Myth functions as an affirmation of self that transcends the temporal.”
“No people is broken until the heart of its women is on the ground.”
“In the universe of power, all transactions proceed in more directions than one.”
“Disorder brings about a series of adjustments whose purpose is to reestablish harmony.”
“Your body is also a planet, replete with creatures that live in and on it.”
“Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?”
“And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright, unclouded day.”
“Oh, my true friend! I am not lone, While thou canst speak with such a tone!”