Danielle Dulsky > Quotes

“There is no book so holy that you should be made to feel choiceless in its mandates,”
― Danielle Dulsky, The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman

“To be heathen means to belong to the wild, to take our lessons from the natural world, and to be nourished by what we fundamentally are rather than what we are told we must be.”
― Danielle Dulsky, The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman

“All human beings, independent of a dominant gender orientation, embody qualities of the masculine and feminine, and the whole of humanity has suffered from the aggressions of the immature and nongenerative masculine.”
― Danielle Dulsky, Woman Most Wild: Three Keys to Liberating the Witch Within

“You are flawed to perfection, and, regardless of the precise nature of your wounds or your identity, you know Her.”
― Danielle Dulsky, The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman

“A Priestess looks within for direction and listens to the whispers, whimpers, and guttural groans of her inner wise woman. A Priestess is an elder. A Priestess is a woman who, regardless of linear age, has done the work and earned the right to say who she is and what she believes. She bows to no one except her own raw soul, and, while she is unquestionably an eternal student, she does not need external approval for her spiritual progress.”
― Danielle Dulsky, The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman

“The lived experience of the earth element is unique to every woman, but it is always marked by a persistent beckoning to come home to a more ancient version of herself, to escape from the overnarrowed and conventional life she had been living, and to seek authenticity more than approval.”
― Danielle Dulsky, The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman

“the extent to which feminine power, in its myriad forms, has been condemned as evil is nothing less than ancient and global. . . . The Goddess has been demonized in our culture, increasingly cast not into a hellish underworld but into a pink and glittery fairyland where she is harmless but also useless.”
― Danielle Dulsky, The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman