Michelle Goldberg > Quotes

“Women's rights must not be treated as trivial adjuncts to great questions of war and peace, poverty and development. What's at stake are not lifestyles but lives.”
― Michelle Goldberg, The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World

“Pure things give off positive energy; impure things don’t.”
― Michelle Goldberg, The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

“In our new world, patriarchy isn't only unjust. It is maladaptive.”
― Michelle Goldberg, The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World

“All over the planet, conflicts between tradition and modernity are being fought on the terrain of women’s bodies.”
― Michelle Goldberg, The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World

“Even close friendships were frowned upon, since personal alliances could stand in the way of universal love.”
― Michelle Goldberg, The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

“As the scholar Mark Singleton writes, from the fifteenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century”
― Michelle Goldberg, The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

“Perhaps Bolm thought that, faced with all this, Eugenia would be cured of her obsession. Instead, she saw only India’s enchantments. She was, she writes, “[h]appy beyond measure to be there.” Europe would never feel like home again.”
― Michelle Goldberg, The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

“The care of the body, under the intelligent control of the mind, is an important branch of yogi philosophy, and is known as ‘Hatha Yoga,’ ” Ramacharaka writes.”
― Michelle Goldberg, The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

“You can form other organizations and expect someone else,” he said. “With that I am not concerned, nor with creating new cages, new decorations for those cages. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.”
― Michelle Goldberg, The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West