" The more we met, the more we talked about our feelings. We felt safe expressing our feelings in the group.

When one of us had a problem that was worrying her, we would offer our support. Some women have nobody they can talk to. A women's group gives us a place where we feel less isolated.

We all want to keep meeting. We feel proud of ourselves and we feel less alone.

Women Getting. together. (1992). Saint John: Saint John Learning Exchange

" As the project continued, I realized my ideas were changing about how to be more woman-positive. I had always thought that if I was going to do something that would assist women, it would have to have a big agenda - doing something that concretely moved toward solving violence, incest, housing problems. It had to be organizing a Take Back the Night march, or setting up a transition house, or hiring a counsellor to deal specifically with childhood sexual assault memories. I hadn't thought that woman-positive might mean something less political, less active and organized.

Marion Wells, "The politics of talking"