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But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walkin...more

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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

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Grace means suddenly you’re in a different universe from the one where you were stuck, and there was absolutely no way for you to get there on your ow...more

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grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101.

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Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this wo...more

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I know nothing, except what everyone knows--if there when grace dances, I should dance.

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It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are ...more

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It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of w...more

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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long ...more

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As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for ...more

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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

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Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you're 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written, or you didn't go swimming in those warm...more

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My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit a...more

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How alive am I willing to be?

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Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room...more