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.

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.

If we do not 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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

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.

If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief

Your soul suffers if you live superficially.

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

Lasting solutions to many social problems will be found only as we each learn to say, 'I am society'.

When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life.

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaigned on a deregulatory agenda.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever.