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Still, the initial idea of telling my story in this book gave me pause. The hardest thing about writing is telling the truth. Maybe it's the hardest thing about being a woman, too. I think of Nisa, the old African...(more) woman who was telling her story...She said, "I will tell my talk...but don't let the people I live with hear what I have to say...I know that feeling. But in the end, Nisa and I, we told our truth anyway.(less)
The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited.
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Source: The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine, Page: 147
Contributed by: girlwoman.
The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited.