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"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."
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"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."

"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
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"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?"

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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