The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.

- Barbara Myerhoff

[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets the…

- Barbara Myerhoff

All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are co…

- Barbara Myerhoff

The self is made, not given

- Barbara Myerhoff