Men often react to women’s words — speaking and writing — as if they were acts of violence; sometimes men react to women’s words with violence. So we lower our voices. Women whisper. Women apologize. Women shut up. Women trivialize what we know. Women shrink. Women pull back. Most women have experienced enough dominance from men — control, violence...
Sadly, we are as invisible to ourselves as we are to men. We learn to see with their eyes — and they are near blind. Our first task, as feminists, is to learn to see with our own eyes.
The Feminine face of God isn’t some vajazzled diva, nor the devil in disguise, but an awesome power source, the nature behind nature, the raw life force, the power behind our power.
Feminine here is the power of the life force shooting through a birthing mother; the gentleness of a woman breastfeeding her newborn; the passion, strength and vulnerability of a woman in orgasm; the connection of blood and steel of a woman with her sister; the fierceness of a woman defending her family.
The Feminine is your wild instinctive self, your core longing, your deepest life force. It is that which feels most true to you as a woman: uncultivated and raw. The Feminine is that which makes you alive and makes you burn. The Feminine is your passion: your expression of love, sexuality, creativity, relationship, beauty, devotion... through your ...
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