Maureen Murdock Quotes & Sayings

Memoirists are our contemporary mythmakers. — Maureen Murdock

There is a danger in the repudiation of the feminine when the daughter who rejects the aspects of the negative feminine embodied by her mother also denies positive aspects of her own feminine nature, which are playful, sensuous, passionate, nurturing, intuitive, and creative. Many women who have had angry or emotional mothers seek to control their own anger and feelings lest they be seen as destructive and castrating. This repression of anger often prevents them from seeing the inequities in a male-defined system. Women who have seen their mothers as superstitious, religious, or old-fashioned discard the murky, mysterious, magical aspects of the feminine for cool logic and analysis. A chasm is created between the heroine and the maternal qualities within her; this chasm will have to be healed later in the journey for her to achieve wholeness. — Maureen Murdock

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

Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness. — Maureen Murdock

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

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

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. — Maureen Murdock

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. — Maureen Murdock