My mother's journals are a shadow play with mine. I....

“ My mother's journals are a shadow play with mine. I am a woman wedded to words. Words cast a shadow. Without a shadow there is no depth. Without a shadow there is no substance. If we have no shadow, it means we are invisible. As long as I have a shadow, I am alive. ”

Terry Tempest Williams

From : When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice