If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.
Interpretation
Embrace your nonconformity and tenacity; it's a sign of strength.
This quote encourages women to take pride in their defiance and unyielding spirit. It implies that being labeled as 'defiant' or 'impossible' is often a badge of honor, signifying strength and resistance against societal norms, and suggests that there is still time to embrace one's true self and assert one's individuality.
In practice
In a women's empowerment seminar to inspire participants to embrace their uniqueness.
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.
Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.
There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.
To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.
As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.
The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.
A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love.
I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.
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