“Her intimate, edgy sculpture was grounded in female experience, including relationships, giving birth and motherhood.”

“We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.”

“Nobody is qualified enough to give advise on intimate relationships other than those sleeping with it.”

“Some women just want the experience of being pregnant, giving birth, and breastfeeding. For many women, these are vital bonding experiences." (p. 274: in her own sweet time)”

“From the first day we hid the woman within the man, so that at the right time we could remove her from within him. We didn't create man to live alone; she was purposed from the beginning. By taking her out of him, he birthed her in a sense. We created a circle of relationship, like our own, but for humans. She, out of him, and now all the males, including me, birthed through her, and all originating, or birthed, from God.”

“I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.”