Cris Williamson Quotations

He was a hermit with a family. I have a bit of that in me. My sister and brother, too. We're not lonely. You don't long for people's company, you long for solitude.

I think there's a sickness in the world. People are sick at heart and mind and spirit. People are just, 'Oh God, none of this belongs to me. Not this government, not this thing called America, not the decisions made about my life.' There's a sense of estrangement that's with us again.

Part of me wanted to say, 'It wasn't yours, it was mine.' But it's part of that iconic relationship. I was afraid I was going to lose my mind, like Virginia Woolf. The heart can break -- it's quite a resilient muscle -- but I don't know about the mind. It seems to be a creature of another sort.

I didn't set out to be an icon, to save the lesbians of the world. But women were hungry. We were starving for someone who talked about what we were thinking and feeling. And somehow I stumbled into a clearing -- here are some things I found that maybe would be useful -- and I flew them out like model airplanes.