Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.

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.

But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.

Here (in Thomas Aquinas) is the mind that prepared the way for the scientific and industrial revolutions. Here is the mind that was Catholic enough to embrace any good idea, from wherever it came.

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

You're always defined in relation to the environment that you're in and to the people that you're around.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.

I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.

You don't need sunglasses inside a building in the middle of the night.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.