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"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."
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"When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression."

"Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer."

"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?"

"But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns."

"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."

"Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar."
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"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."

"After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess."

"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."

"In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making."

"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."

"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."

"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?"

"Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before."
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