Quotes from Maureen Murdock

The way we tell our life story is the way we begin to live our life.

Women have to learn where their true source of validation is.

When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.

Women's bodies are public domain, as evidenced clearly at the present time by the furor over abortion. Everyone has an opinion about what a woman should or should not do with her body.

Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.

Women have to learn where their true source of validation is.

The mother/daughter relationship and the separation from the mother is so complex that in most women's literature and fairy tales the mother remains absent, dead, or villainous.

This stage involves clear choices and sacrifices that to anyone with a patriarchal focus may look like dropping out.

so many women having taken the hero's journey, only to find it personally empty and dangerous for humanity. Women emulated the male heroic journey because there were no other images to emulate;

Society places enormous responsibility at the feet of mom without giving her the financial support, prestige, and acclaim due to a job of such momentous import for the entire culture.

To protect patrilineal descent, men have for centuries tried to control women's sexuality. Although man needs woman, he tries to keep her power under control, legislating against women's free use of her sex in case she compromises the fragile but tenacious social structure of our patriarchal society.

When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images and emotions you craft from the memory.

Memoirists are our contemporary mythmakers.