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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.