Skye Leroux

“The elder woman who has come to understand the nature of her own journey through life isn’t easily disheartened or daunted by the challenges of the world around her. She’s been around for long enough, and survived enough troubles and traumas, that she’s unlikely to be shocked or overwhelmed by the crises and conflicts that exist in the world around her. She’s seen how easy it is for things to fall apart, but she has also experienced renewal, and she knows how to engage in that necessary work of reimagining better ways of being and living in a troubled world. That’s why it’s so important that, as elder women, we find our own unique way of expressing our own unique gift, our own unique brand of hagitude — because one of the more important of our roles is to encourage the kind of imagination which serves all life on this planet. The elder woman — not only because of her age, but her experience and deep vision — can see ahead; she can predict what might happen and what might go wrong. But, more importantly, her visionary skills can help her to work out how to help put things right again, and how to restore the balance, because in almost all old wisdom traditions around the world, elders act as a living bridge between the visible world and the “unseen” realms — the Otherworld, in whatever ways they might conceive of it.”
― Sharon Blackie, Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

“You’re the light that holds back the darkness,” Harriett said. “Women like you have always existed. Without you, the world would be thrown out of balance.”
― Kirsten Miller, The Change

“Manda Scott is best known as a writer, and I first came across her through her wonderful series of books about Boudica. Manda also describes herself as a veterinary surgeon, a podcaster, a sustainable economist, regenerative farmer, conscious revolutionary — and shamanic teacher.”
― Sharon Blackie, Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

“subjection, entirely, to men. What should have been balanced was unequal. The half mistaken for the whole. Humanity meant men alone. Women were an afterthought. Lesser, inferior. The servants. Often, slaves.”
― Nikki Marmery, Lilith