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

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

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.

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 pottery making.

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

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

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