Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers..

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me..

Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing….

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and….

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend….

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body..

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body..

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and potte….

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independ….

If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pr….

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful..

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before..

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind..

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before..

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the la….

Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most pe….

Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coi….

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?.

Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times ….

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal..