Original Fire tells many stories. They are stories of women from the past who dared to break out of the constrictions of their times and thus contributed in no small measure to affirming women's inner authority. And they are stories of women in our own time told in their own words, religious and those who would not identify with that description - all discovering a common capacity to live from the heart, even when it must be hidden and protected. This book illumines and celebrates the interior capacity of women to live authentically even when they seem to do otherwise, and it offers ways for...