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"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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"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."
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"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."
"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."
"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."
"And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing."
"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."
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"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."
"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."
"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?"
"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."
"In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal."
"Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body."
"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."
"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."
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