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Carol P. Christ

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

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Brennan Manning

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."

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Brennan Manning

"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."

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Brennan Manning

"The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring."

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Brennan Manning

"Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody."

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Brennan Manning

"There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds."

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Brennan Manning

"It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries."

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Brennan Manning

"Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad."

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"I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them."

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

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"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall."

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Carol P. Christ
"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."

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Carol P. Christ
"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."

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Carol P. Christ
"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."

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Carol P. Christ
"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."

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Carol P. Christ
"The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior."

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Carol P. Christ
"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."

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Carol P. Christ
"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."

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Carol P. Christ
"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."

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"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."

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Carol P. Christ
"If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?"

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