Excerpts from the book
Cries of the Spirit-A Celebration of Women's Spirituality
SM
I tell you, Chickadee
I am afraid of people
who cannot cry
Tears left unshed
turn to poison
in the ducts
Ask the next soldier you see
enjoying a massacre
if this is not so.
People who do not cry
are victims
of soul mutilation
paid for in Marlboros
and trucks.
Resist.
Violence does not work
except for the man
who pays your salary
Who knows
if you could still weep
you would not take the job.
Alice Walker
Christmas Letter 1970 excerpt
In the drowning high seas of Christmas
When loneliness, in the name of Christ
(That longing), attacks the world
May Sarton
one hesitates to bring a child into this world without fixing
it up a little. paint a special room. stop sexism. learn how
to love. vow to do it better than it was done when you were
a baby. vow to make, if necessary, new mistakes, vow to be
awake for the birth, to believe in joy even in the midst of
unbearable pain.
Alta
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