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Elizabeth Lesser • Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
Perfection or damnation.
Elizabeth Lesser • Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
They forewarn men against anything coded feminine: the home, the hearth,
Elizabeth Lesser • Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
when we speak from our authentic voices, when we flex our values, when we become protagonists in the tales we tell about what it means to be human.
Elizabeth Lesser • Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
All I know is that in my early thirties I became acutely aware of the feelings of constriction, heartache, and anger that had been brewing in me since I was a girl. Slowly, the desire to do something to change the story became stronger than my fear of speaking up.
Elizabeth Lesser • Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
To empower the lost voices and undervalued ways of women is not an either/or, oppositional proposition. Rather, it is an act of restoration, a righting of a world seriously out of whack.
Elizabeth Lesser • Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
describe presence rather than means towards an end: nourishing, edifying, redemptive; courageous, generous, winsome; adventurous, curious, tender.