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The women, Patty said, have been a little better than the men at buying into what she described as “a culture where champions pull up champions.”
Anouk Patty
In Western communities of sādhana practitioners, gaṇacakra feast offerings have been performed by male and female practitioners together who all understand themselves to be embodiments of the ḍākinī
Judith Simmer-Brown • Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
It is said that the women don’t need the same ceremonies as the men, because their bodies naturally enter into a ceremony each month.
Larry Dossey • Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
‘Long Jaid na ka Kynthei’. It means ‘all people sprang from the woman’.
Angela Saini • The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
For generations women accepted the role of legitimizing humans through marriage to a man. They agreed that a human was not acceptable unless a man said so.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Women held the community together. “Wathint’Abafazi Wathint’imbokodo!” was the chant they would rally to during the freedom struggle. “When you strike a woman, you strike a rock.” As a nation, we recognized the power of women, but in the home they were expected to submit and obey.
Trevor Noah • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
The most obvious example of how far we have strayed from our organic roots as a female community is the birthing practices of our present-day culture. Women have actually come to believe that we don’t know how to have babies. We fear it, dread it, look to the “experts” to help us do it right. We go to sterile, unloving environments away from home a
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