Fear Quote by Doris Meyer

Mythology has largely been written by men and focusses on men - on wars and men, who went to war. But, there are women…

— Sudha Murty

“As I researched the history of the heroine it became painfully clear to me that women have had little hand in creating our own…

— Kathleen Noble

Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women,…

— Jalaja Bonheim

“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

Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than…

— Camille Paglia

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

Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out…

— Laura Mulvey

I think the myths are keeping us limited to, and tied to, what I would call the hyper-masculine tradition. All the major religions in…

— Arjuna Ardagh

“The Goddess-centered art we have been examining, with its striking absence of images of male domination or warfare, seems to have reflected a social…

— Riane Eisler

“In the world’s oldest creation myths, the female god creates the world out of her own body. The Great Mother everywhere was the active…

— Monica Sjöö

“Myths born in patriarchy offer a limited source of data on women. What they usually tell is how women react under patriarchy.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

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