The Great Mother clears her throat as we rise to insist that kinship be rekindled, that the darkness be released. Out of the blackness of the long, long night, we have seen the light of a full moon rising. She has entered us. She is filling us with Her sight. And though we know not where She leads . . . . we follow.
Ann Mortifee
Let the waters settle; you will see stars and moon mirrored in your being.
Rumi
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
Edward Abbey
Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.
(Anonymous)
It has been a stifling oppression, a magnificent challenge, a heart breaking sorrow and an extraordinary opportunity to have been born a woman in these times.
Anne Mortifee
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
This is what you shall do: be loyal to what you love, be true to the Earth, and fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
Edward Abbey
I am not a discrete entity who is trying to fix up the earth — I am Mother Earth's daughter — I am a very small part of Mother Earth Herself, and my beloved Mother is struggling to heal Herself.
Cate
We can no longer afford to live as half-light versions of ourselves. The complexity of our time requires a greater and wiser use of our capacities, a rich playing of the instrument we have been given. The world can thrive only if we can grow. The possible society can become a reality only if we learn to be the humans we are meant to be.
Jean Houston
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
Bette Davis
I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.
Isak Dinesen
We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us to see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our silence.
William Butler Yeats
Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
Come old one, Mountain crone, give us your wisdom, Come moon, give us your silver.
Shekhinah Mountainwater
I am a woman, a part of the whole of the first circle, the circle that transcends space and time, the circle of women joined.
Ann Valliant
I see the wise woman. She carries a blanket of compassion. She wears a robe of wisdom.
Susun Weed, Healing Wise
The flourishing of a feminist matristic vision today is a sign that it may not be too late to save our mother's life.
Gloria Orenstein, The Reflowering of the Goddess
As a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, the world is my country.
Virginia Woolf
The earth is the mother of all that is natural, of all that is human.
Hildegard of Bingen
Great Mother, I am your daughter and I call to you. Teach me courage and kindness and how to love myself.
Sedonia Cahill, A Prayer to Gaia
There is a Goddess in me. I am learning her dances by the dark of the moon. She awakens and sings, " Oh moon-dancing woman - Blessed Be".
Claudia L'Amoreaux
In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?
Merlin Stone
There is a cave deep in the center of your heart. It is the birth cave of the Goddess. Do you remember? You have been there.
Claudia L'Amoreaux
Sometime in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself.
Katherine Sharp
Ask within for her advice. She is the Mother of the Ages. Nothing surprises her. She has seen it all.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves
The Old Woman is our beginnings and our endings, and our beginnings again. Enriched by the experiences of living, she is the missing link in the sacred circle.
Jeanne Brooks Carritt
A gypsy spirit dances in the light of the ancient moon.
Laurel Burch
Swiftly the years, beyond recall, solemn the stillness of this fair morning. I will clothe myself in spring-clothing, and visit the slopes of the Eastern Hill. By the mountain-stream a mist hovers, hovers a moment, then scatters. There comes a wind blowing from the south that brushes the fields of new corn.
R. H. Blyth, Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics
If you can move, you can dance. If you can form words, you can sing.
Zimbabwe Proverb
Page updated on May 29, 2003
