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I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!
God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.
Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.
Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!
Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.
Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.
I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.
