Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Sunset is the saddest light there is.

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

Time and again, I've met or read about people who succeeded against all kinds of odds because they had passion. You're passion away to win!

The elevator can take you up to greater heights ONLY IF you take positive action by pressing the button. Greatness in life is all about the right choices you make.

A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light!

My wife went off with Elvis.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

There is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.

I like watching a man boss everybody around. It's so sexy

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.