We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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