We come into this world through women: a woman who is spent, broken open, in awe. No wonder women have been worshiped ever since men first saw the crowning of a head, here, legs spread, a brushstroke of light. We are fire. We are water. We are earth. We are air. We are all things elemental. The world begins with "Yes, "Changing women: we begin again like the moon. We can no longer deny the destiny that is ours by becoming women who wait: waiting to love, waiting to speak, waiting to act. This is not patience, but pathology. We are sensual, sexual beings, intrinsically bound to both heaven and earth, our bodies a hologram. In our withholding of power, we abrogate power, and that creates war. The Australian poet Judith Wright says, "Our dream was the wrong dream, our strength was the wrong strength. Wounded, we cross the desert's emptiness and must be false to what would make us whole. Terry Tempest Williams
About This Quote

Judith Wright was a poet and social activist born in Sydney. In her poem, "A Woman," she speaks about the strong bond between women and nature. She sings of an innocent girl who is filled with wonder and awe at the world around her. Judith Wright was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of thirty-eight.

The diagnosis was devastating for her and she came to understand that many women experience similar feelings before they are diagnosed. After her diagnosis, Judith Wright wrote another poem "Afterwards" which is about how we should let go of our fears and trust in the doctors and their idea that they know best and that we should accept their treatment instead of fighting against them.

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