"The truth is that while men, in our……" — Starhawk
"The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun."
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Starhawk
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67 Quotes by Starhawk
Starhawk has 67 quotes on this site.
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Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.
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Fascination with the psychic - or the psychological - can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path.
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If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition.…
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Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of…
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Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.
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Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.
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Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human…
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Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
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What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together…
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In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess ~~ we connect with her; through the moon, the stars,…
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What affects one thing affects, in some way, all things: All is interwoven into the continuous fabric of being. Its…
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge…
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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