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“I was being advised to give up a common female idolatry and take on a common male idolatry,” she said. “But I didn’t want to have my self-worth dependent on career success any more than on men. I wanted to be free.”

Timothy Keller • Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

“The loss of feminine qualities is an urgent psychological and ecological issue in modern society. It is a painful loss in our emotional lives and a disastrous loss for the safety of life on earth...It is by empowering the sacred feminine and by listening to the earth as she tries to communicate with us that we will ultimately heal...

...We need to... See more

Mission, Vision, Values - Tara Mandala

How can any girl sustain the belief that she is loved, truly loved, when all around her she sees that femaleness is despised?

Bell Hooks • Communion

Feminine power does not move the world through force. It tethers the masculine powers to life, directs them toward love, and keeps them grounded in beauty. In the marriage of matriarchy and patriarchy, the masculine asks the feminine, “Where shall I direct my powers?” The untethered masculine runs awry, building towers of abstraction and technology... See more

Charles Eisenstein • Feminine Power

One is the strong commitment to community.

Blu Greenberg • How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household

Patriarchy Stress Disorder

Valerie Rein

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Even while she affirms qualities that have been associated with womanhood in every culture, she questions the entanglements of home, family, subjugation, and vanity that have bound those qualities. In these