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#1

“Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.”
― Julia Kristeva, Black Sun

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#2

“The Dalai Lama says that the world will be saved by Western women. Not any women, perhaps not all women, but Burning Women. Women who have stepped out of silence and into the fullness of their power. Angry women who love the world and her creatures too much to let it be destroyed so thoughtlessly for a moment longer.

Burning Woman is the heart and soul of revolution – inner and outer. She burns for change, she dances in the fire of the old, all the while visioning and weaving the new.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman

tags: anger, angry-women, burning-woman, cultural-change, dalai-lama, feminine-archetypes, herstory, priestess, revolution, silence

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#3

“As a very basic guideline, when someone else asks for your yes in a situation that is good for them, but not for you, your yes is not required and may be harmful to your ability to say any genuine yes to life.”
― Jane Meredith, Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul

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#4

“As women are altering their traditional role expressions, men are developing new responses to the transformed women. Old patterns are no longer acceptable, and new sets of expectations and roles are now required of them.”
― Demetra George, Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Psychology, and Astrology of the Re-Emerging Feminine

tags: astrology, feminism

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#5

“Witches cast spells, not to do evil, but to promote changes of consciousness. Witches cast spells as acts of redefinition. To respell the world means to redefine the root of our being. It means to redefine us and therefore change us by returning us to our original consciousness of magical-evolutionary processes. This consciousness is within us, in our biology and in our dreams. It works on subliminal levels, whether or not we are aware of it, because it is the energy of life and imagination. When we are aware of it, it works for us, as the energy of destiny. And it is powerful, with the genuine power of biological life and cosmic imagination. Perhaps”
― Monica Sjöö, The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth

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#6

“Women HAVE a history that has been systematically suppressed. Our collective spirituality has largely been tainted to fit the needs of men and those in power. This has a profound effect on the self-esteem of girls and the women they become. This influence can be seen in their life choices, partners and financial security for the rest of their lives. It also has an effect on the way their future partners will view them - and ultimately treat them. Our girls deserve better. The time to introduce feminism and woman-centered spirituality to ALL children is now.”
― Trista Hendren

tags: divine-feminine, women-s-spirituality, women-s-studies

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#7

“Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that they can create [expansive or entrapping] realities over and over.~Kuan Yin”
― Hope Bradford, Beneficial Law of Attraction: the Manifestation Teachings

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#8

“We use rituals in our Moon Circle in order to set the evening apart as a sacred space. We use it to recentre ourselves, to allow crashing thoughts to melt away. Like music and art, rituals can open our hearts to new possibilities. They allow us to see with a fresh clarity, and bring us to a space of liminality. Liminal space is what we feel when we see a stunning sunset and the world around us drops away. It's when we hear a new song and begin crying at the traffic lights. It's the quiet of Christmas Eve, when everything is done and all the family is asleep, and your mind grows still and full of gladness.”
― Lucy Aitkenread, Moon Circle: Rediscover intuition, wildness and sisterhood

tags: moon-circle, ritual, rituals, sacred, sacred-space

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#9

“Health is being in harmony with the world view. Health is an intuitive perception of the universe and all its inhabitants as being of one fabric. Health is maintaining communication with the animals and plants and minerals and stars. It is knowing death and life and seeing no difference. It is blending and melding, seeking solitude and seeking companionship to understand one's many levels. Unlike the more "modern" notions, in shamanic society health is not the absence of feeling; no more so is it the absence of pain. Health is seeking out all of the experiences of Creation and turning them over and over, feeling their texture and multiple meanings. Health is expanding beyond one's singular state of consciousness to experience the ripples and waves of the universe.”
― Jeanne Achterberg

tags: health, medicine, shamanism

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#10

“It is each woman’s responsibility to take the time when she is in her time of the moon to purify. It is the responsibility of the men to give the women the opportunity to do so. Nicholas Noble Wolf,”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Moon Time: Harness the Ever-Changing Energy of Your Menstrual Cycle

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#11

“Free-thinking, powerful, passionate women are dangerous to a conservative male-dominated culture. They tend to do what they want and believe is right...not what you tell them. And so patriarchal cultures have a deep-seated fear of women in their power, their ability to give life...and take life, their uncontrollable emotions, their intuition, their constant changing. Rather than seek partnership with this power, the patriarchal system has chosen to dominate and subdue the women who show signs of it through shaming, branding, naming, ostracising, traumatising, raping, medicating...and burning. In patriarchy powerful women are a threat. Their”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman

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#12

“In order to reclaim our full selves, to integrate each of these aspects through which we pass over the course of our lives, we must first learn to embrace them though our cycles.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Moon Time: Harness the Ever-Changing Energy of Your Menstrual Cycle

tags: bleediing, blood-mysteries, cycle-wisdom, cycles, menstrual-wisdom, menstruation, moon-time, sacred-feminine, wise-woman

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#13

“Don’t ever stop believing in your own personal transformation. It is still happening even on the days you may not realize it or feel like it.”
― Lalah Delia

tags: awakening, courage, days, encouragement, family, feelings, feels, friendship, healing, improvement, improving, inspirational, inspiring-quotes, journey, lalah-delia, mindfulness, mindset, mood, motivational, overcomer-quotes, path, personal-development, process, realize, relationships, self-confidence, self-discipline, spiritual-growth, stillness, transcendence, transformation, trust-the-process, vibrate-higher, vibrate-higher-daily, victory, well-being

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#14

“I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

tags: goddess, morgaine

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#15

“Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.”
― Nikki Rowe

tags: authentic, awaken, awaken-your-being, awareness, chaos, compassion, energy, goddess, insightful, life-quotes, nikki-rowe, nurturing-self, quotes-about-struggles, self-appreciation, self-care, self-love, simplicity, solitude, solitude-quotes, spiritual, struggle, vibes

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#16

“I flush,and my inner goddess grabs a rose between her teeth and starts to tango.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker

tags: goddess, love, tango

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#17

“Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.”
― Merlin Stone, When God Was a Woman

tags: beliefs, goddess, pagan, religion, religions, sexuality

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#18

“When we have the courage to claim space for ourselves. When we risk creativity. When we relish our sensuality. When we honor our lives and their experiences as valuable. When we create from a female body, expressing ourselves in a woman’s voice, using a woman’s language. We begin to bloom.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood

tags: courage, creative-mothers, creative-process, creativity, creativity-quotes, motherhood, risk, womens-creativity

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#19

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

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#20

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Elizabeth Appell

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#21

“Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. If the first woman they passionately loved, the mother, was not true to her bond of love, then how can they trust that their partner will be true to love. Often in their adult relationships these men act out again and again to test their partner's love. While the rejected adolescent boy imagines that he can no longer receive his mother's love because he is not worthy, as a grown man he may act out in ways that are unworthy and yet demand of the woman in his life that she offer him unconditional love. This testing does not heal the wound of the past, it merely reenacts it, for ultimately the woman will become weary of being tested and end the relationship, thus reenacting the abandonment. This drama confirms for many men that they cannot put their trust in love. They decide that it is better to put their faith in being powerful, in being dominant.”
― bell hooks

tags: abuse, commitment, love, men, relationships, women

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#22

“When you build a wall to protect yourself against one person be warned--everyone is now out there except for you.”
― Nakia R. Laushaul, The Truth As I See It: In Poetry & Prose

tags: boundaries, love-hurts, truth

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#23

“I be wanting to speak on stuff sometimes, but Spirit be like, "Leave that shit alone, hear?" And I be like, "Yes, ma'am.”
― Trelani Michelle, Women Who Ain't Afraid to Curse When Communicating with God: 31-Day Self-Study Guide to Spiritual Liberation

tags: divine-feminine, inner-guidance, mind-your-own-business, self-expression, spirit, spiritual-growth, spiritual-wisdom

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#24

“The accident in your rearview mirror already happened. The one in front of you is still preventable. Pay attention.”
― Nakia R. Laushaul

tags: common-sense

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#25

“There will come a time in every girl's life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn't crazy. Actually, she was right (about you).”
― Nakia R. Laushaul

tags: common-sense, inspiration

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#26

“When I write
When I sing
When I read
... I am beautiful.”
― Nakia R. Laushaul, The Truth As I See It: In Poetry & Prose

tags: i-am-beautiful

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#27

“I will be the mad woman; the broken, crazy one. I will scream and screech and rend my face and tear my hair. I will be vulnerable, feel everything, every arrow aimed at me, all the suffering that comes my way I will not seek to hold it back it will sweep over, through me and I will be flecks on the surface of it, broken apart. I have no defenses, everything comes in at me all at once and I cannot hold together, any longer.”
― Jane Meredith, Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul

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#28

“... the effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with spiritual quests throughout the ages. Spiritual feminists, no less than medieval mystics, are searching in the ways made available to them through their culture to separate themselves from everything in their hearts and minds that puts them at odds with the divine plan (and therefore with their own best interests), and to find a true harmony between themselves and the universe.”
― Cynthia Eller

tags: feminism, goddess, soul, spirituality

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#29

“Perhaps you would be better off finding some way to embrace your new nature, instead of fighting it.”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Divine

tags: baba-yaga, chudo-yudo, dragon, god, goddess, rider, shamaness, witch

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