God Quote by Bettany Hughes

Territorial expansion demands warriors and, once population levels are stable, demotes the female role. Once religious empires have not just an idea but a…

— Bettany Hughes

At the birth of society and civilisation I find a religious landscape littered with feisty female deities who make wisdom their business.

— Bettany Hughes

“Within this enclosed women's world, so to say, behind the walls and fortifications of it, I felt the presence of a great ideal, without…

— Karen Blixen

There are many female gods recognized and honored by the tribes and Nations. Femaleness was highly valued, both respected and feared, and all social…

— Paula Gunn Allen

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in…

— Dan Brown

“If women allow themselves to be consoled for their culturally determined lack of access to the modes of intellectual debate by the invocation of…

— Angela Carter

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a…

— Carol P. Christ

“…female deities were gradually overshadowed by or incorporated into the attributes of a number of male gods, then eclipsed by the ascendance of the…

— Judy Chicago

“And thus woman has been definitely established as the Other. Western mythology itself was a patriarchal construct; through its portrayal of woman as the…

— Doris Meyer

“A Divine Feminine symbol acts to deconstruct patriarchy, which is one of the reasons there’s so much resistance, even hysteria, surrounding the idea of…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“Much of what is written on the craft is biased in one way or another, so weed out what is useful to you and…

— starhawk