It’s terrifying to surrender, and terrifying to become greater. Far more terrifying than staying small.

Feminist historian Riane Eisler describes how our Neolithic and Paleolithic ancestors imagined a woman’s body and pussy as a magical vessel. As she explains, our ancestors marveled at the way it bleeds in rhythm with the moon, miraculously creates life, and produces milk to feed its offspring. Not to mention the magical way a woman can cause a

how do you teach the sun that she’s the sun? Imagine it. She’s looking around, and she sees light everywhere. She thinks, I’m on the same ride as all of you! I’m not anything special. She is the only one who can’t see it, because she is it.

See, when a woman is in a state of rapture, she is standing in her power. She is able to feel the full range of her emotions and to stop teetering in that nasty neighborhood of diminishment and doubt. She can feel her wingspan, which is unusual for a woman in a patriarchal culture.

feeling I hadn’t had since childhood. Dazed and amazed, I stepped out of the tub and proceeded to the next stage of the assignment. I was to look at myself in the mirror, lit by candles, and notice what was beautiful. I had never thought to look at myself like this, to notice my own beauty.

when we feel radiant, we get everything we have always wanted. We feel powerful, confident, and in control. Like the courtesans in whose lineage we are walking, we know who we are in time and space. We know we are not victims, but the heroines of our own lives. The stars of our show. Walking hand in hand with our divinity, guided by the GPS.

We believe it’s our partner’s job to fulfill us spiritually, romantically, sensually, and emotionally. Not only is it impossible for a single person to fulfill another on all of these levels, in adopting this belief we abandon our own sense of responsibility for our lives. Is it any surprise that half of all marriages end in divorce? The whole

A woman who owns her pussy owns her life. And when you own your life, you can take risks. You can have fun. You can be creative. So unlike women in our world today. It’s heartbreaking to feel how little room for play there seems to be.

As odd as it may seem, what brought you to the point of reading this book is the same thing that got me to say yes to Vera that day. Something has called forth a part of you that knows. The power of the response within you might be surprising, even a bit overwhelming. But some part of you wants something here, even if that something is not possible