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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.