39.Griffin, Woman and Nature, 219.
40.This story is adapted from Kidd, “Dolphins,” 7.
41.“Everyone Is a Closet Mystic: An Interview with Andrew Harvey,” Inquiring Mind (Fall 1994), 8.
42.“Closet Mystic,” 9.
43.Jean Shinoda Bolen, Crossing to Avalon: A Woman’s Midlife Pilgrimage (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994), 39.
44.From an interview with Thomas Berry in Mark Matousek, “Reinventing the Human,” Common Boundary (May–June 1990), 34.
45.Hildegard of Bingen, Mystical Writings, trans. Robert Carver, ed. Fiona Bowie and Oliver Davies (New York: Crossroad, 1990), 91–93.
46.Sue Woodruff, Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg (Santa Fe: Bear, 1982), 42.
47.Janet Frame, An Autobiography, vol. 2, An Angel at My Table (New York: George Braziller, 1991), 188.
48.Judges 19.
49.Phyllis Trible, Texts of Terror (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984), 81.
50.Maya Angelou, The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (New York: Random House, 1994), 163.
51.Susan Griffin, Woman and Nature, 188.
52.Johnson, She Who Is, 5–6.
53.Tillie Olsen, “I Stand Here Ironing,” Tell Me a Riddle (New York: Dell Publishing, 1956), 12.
54.Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 35.
55.Daly, Beyond God the Father, 51.
56.Isak Dinesen, quoted in Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959), 175.
57.For reading on mindfulness see: Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life (New York: Bantam Books, 1991); Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: A Manual of Meditation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1976); Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart (New York: Bantam, 1993); Joseph Goldstein, The Experience of Insight (Boston: Shambhala, 1976); Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom (Boston: Shambhala, 1987); John Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (New York: Hyperion, 1994).
58.C. G. Jung and C. Kerenyi, Essays on a Science of Mythology, Bollingen Series 22 (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1963), 162.
59.Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves (New York: Ballantine, 1992), 364.
60.Meinrad Craighead, The Mother’s Song: Images of God the Mother (New York: Paulist Press, 1986), vii.
61.Daly, Beyond God the Father, 41.
62.Madonna Kolbenschlag, Lost in the Land of Oz: The Search for Identity and Community in American Life (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988), 81.
63.Sappho: A New Translation, trans. Mary Barnard (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1958), poem no. 8.
PART FOUR: EMPOWERMENT
1.Madonna Kolbenschlag, Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-bye (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979), 196.
2.Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Writing a Woman’s Life (New York: Ballantine, 1988), 18.
3.Eleanor Rae and Bernice Marie-Daly, Created in Her Image: Models of the Feminine Divine (New York: Crossroad, 1990), 101.
4.The story with photograph was reported in USA Today, February 24, 1994, 8E.
5.Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), 159–60.
6.See Sue Monk Kidd, “The Secret Life of Bees,” Nimrod: International Journal 37, no. 1 (Fall—Winter 1993): 21–30.
7.Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life (New York: Plume Penguin Books, 1989), 169.
8.Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves (New York: Ballantine, 1992), 318.
9.Cited in Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit (St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1987), 40.
10.Ann Belford Ulanov, Receiving Woman: Studies in the Psychology and the Theology of the Feminine (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1981), 118.
11.Esther Harding, Woman’s Mysteries: Ancient and Modern (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), 102, 103.
12.Charlene Spretnak, Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths (Boston: Beacon Press, 1978), 87.
13.Mirabai, “Why Mira Can’t Go Back to Her Old House,” in Robert Bly, News of the Universe (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 256.
14.Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (New York: Heritage Press, 1936), xxvii.
15.Margaret Atwood, Surfacing (New York: Fawcett Crest, 1972), 17.
16.Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh (New York: Penguin Books, 1982), 39, 43.
17.Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life (New York: Bantam Books, 1991), 112.
18.Estés, Women Who Run, 460.
19.Linda Hogan, That’s What She Said: Contemporary Poetry and Fiction by Native American Women, ed. Rayna Green (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1984), 172.
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4.Anne A. Simpkinson. “A Self of One’s Own.” Common Boundary, March/April 1990, vol. 8, no. 2.
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6.Excerpted from “The Archeology of a Marriage” as published in The Retrieval System. Used by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd. Copyright © 1978 by Maxine Kumin.
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