Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.
The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
You’ve read about the goddesses, come on. They’re an international sensation. These are my girlfriends. These are the women that I love that have completed the three parts of my heart.
In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.
At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.
Aphrodite makes us understand why women have drowned their babies.
The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.