“She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.”

“Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.”

“She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.”

“Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.”

“Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?”

“Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then...”

“The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body and flee earth with its constan...”

“... 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 sp...”

“I'm a queen with or without a king. Chasing anything is beneath me. Until you're ready to put away childish things and be my man, my king, someone I can trust to shepard my soul to the Almighty I h...”

“Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.”