“For as long as wimmin have had the temerity to experience feelings of anger, sadness, frustration, and deep resentment, patriarchal society has denied them these feelings, and, in fact, punished them heartily for feeling anything at all.”
“If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.”
“It was respect she had for feelings, how she believed it was inimical to the soul to deny them.”
“When you look at her what do you feel?... Joy, fear, frustration, longing, friendship, anger, need, despair, love, lust?""Yes.""Yes, what?""All of it.”
“It was all right to be sad. It was all right to lament. It was all right to feel anger. But [is] not all right to run away.”
“The feelings cut too deep for them to be puton display.”