"At first the ancient images of the Goddess……" — Carol P. Christ
"At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me."
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23 Quotes by Carol P. Christ
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The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female…
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I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in…
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Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.
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The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother…
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Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and…
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Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.
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If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there…
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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…
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Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has…
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Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave…
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In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and…
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The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of…
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More Ancient Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our…
— Margaret Atwood
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
— Saint Augustine
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,…
— Diane Ackerman
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
— Andrew Bernstein
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
— Wendell Berry
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
— Annie Besant
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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