Terry Tempest Williams Quotes About Grandmothers

Quotes about: Grandmothers

• I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge exists in my capacity to love. If I can learn to love death then I can begin to find refuge in change.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Capacity To Love, Rivers

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.178, Vintage

• I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened as each succumbed to cancer. Little was hidden between us. No time. And what was hidden, turned inward. I made a vow to speak. Speak or die.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Cancer, Inward

  Source: therumpus.net

• I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Children, Spring, Grandmother

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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