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

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.

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 regeneration.

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.

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

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