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 independent power.

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

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 coincide with women's menstrual cycles.

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

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 late 1960's.