Carol P. Christ Quotes

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful. - Carol P. Christ

Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles. - Carol P. Christ

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. - Carol P. Christ

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion. - Carol P. Christ

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. - Carol P. Christ

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's. - Carol P. Christ

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before. - Carol P. Christ

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers. - Carol P. Christ

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me. - Carol P. Christ

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