Feminine Spirituality Quotes

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?

Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women.

The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body & flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms & clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.

If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female soul, ritual involving dance, fire, water, air, earth, songs, music, flowers, and beauty.

When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come from this recognition of the feminine mediating divine love. And for many people in history, it was clearly the preferred way because women raised most people, not men, so their first experience of unconditional love, of touch, of caring, of nurturing very often came from a woman - that got easily transferred to Mary.

[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior.

The eternal feminine draws us on high.

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

Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.

There have been systems of religion where the mother is the prime parent, the source, and she's really a more immediate parent than the father, because one is born from the mother...so that the image of the woman is the image of the world.

The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics -- women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according to her nature, towards enlightenment. Of course once you are enlightened, you have gone beyond the discrimination of sexes. Beyond enlightenment, you are simply human beings. But before that... Be proud of your qualities. Increase them, refine them because they are the path towards godliness. Man is not in a better position than woman as far as religious experience is concerned.