"When I reflect on where I started and where I am now, I know that the journey I have taken with Emily is the most valuable experience of my adult life. Emily invited me into this place where I dare to peel away my defenses, a little at a time, until what is left is the core of what makes me me. It is alive, it throbs with passion and anger, it can feel sorrow and elation; it lives and breathes because it is me. And the only reason I know that this part of me exists is because Emily encouraged, cajoled and strengthened me to follow her down the path to my creativity and then she stood aside and let me try it on my own."

~Linda Rizzotto