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.

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

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

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 to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.

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?

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.

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.