The Goddess Within

The Ancient Goddess is everywhere-within all of us and in all that surrounds us. Her wisdom comes to us through imagery in painting, sculpture, dance, literature, music, poetry, science, athletics, film, architecture, and all creative endeavors. To see Her influence, you need only look. She has always been here.

At times, the Goddess has been banished or burned; still she has endured. With every reemergence, she guides us to a place where we can see beyond the man-made lines on our planet, the color of our skin, the shape of our bodies, and what we call ourselves. She imparts a wisdom that changes society's stereotypical images and reveals the true essence of woman-profound strength, deep compassion, consummate love, and unfailing justice.

Modern Goddesses

I survived because I was tougher than everyone else
-Bette Davis

I am tough, ambitious and I know what I want.
If that makes me a bitch, okay.
Ican throw a fit, I am a master at it.
-Madonna

It is time to stop denying the inner bitch in ourselves.
Stop apologizing for her. Set her free.
-Elizabeth Hilts

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insuffereable.
-Fran Lebowitz

The pain of leaving those you love is only a prelude to understanding yourself.
-Shirley MacLaine

In my long and colorful career, one thing stands outs: I have been misunderstood.
-Mae West

In my life's chain of events, nothing was accidental.
-Hannah Senesh

I have bursts of being a lady but it doesn't last long.
-Shelley Winters

"Afraid" is a country with no exit visa.
-Audre Lorde

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Our goals should be health [and] stamina.
-Emme Aronson

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, becasue the bigger we are the more space we take up and the more we have to be reckoned with.
-Roseanne Barr

There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people.
-Evelyn Mandel

Don't compromise yourself; you are all you got.
-Janis Joplin

No trumperts sound when the important decisions in our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
-Agnes DeMille

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
-Helen Keller

There is nothing stronger than gentleness.
-Han Suyin

The brother that gets me is going to get one hell of a woman. -Arethe Franklin

A girl can wait for the right man to come along; but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.
-Cher

Don't start dating someone just because you are too lazy to commit suicide.
-July Tenuta

It is impossible to think that youcan spend your entire life wtih ust one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it.
-Clare Boothe

In love there are two things, bodies and words.
-Joyce Carol Oates

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
-Marya Mannes

The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.
-Lisa Alther

When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.
-Anais Nin

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman; the magnetism of it is health-giving.
-Margaret Sanger

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
-Mignon McLaughlin

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than one's self is real.
-Dame Iris Murdoch

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
-Phyllis Diller

Sometimes it is worse to win a fight than lose.
-Billie Holiday

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say, "I don't want it right now", that's when you will get it for sure.
-Linda Barry

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-Delores Ibarruri

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
-Florence Kennedy

I don't waste time thinking, "Am I doing it right?"
I ask, "Am I doing it?"
-Georgette Mosbacher You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there is a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.
-Kitty Kelly

When people tell you that you can't do something, you kind of want to try it.
-Margaret Chase Smith

Well-behaved women rarely make history.
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

I have no regrets.
I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I were going to worry aobut what people were going to say.
-Ingrid Bergman

You don't get to choose how you are going to die.
Or when.
You can only decide how you're going to live.
Now.
-Joan Baez

As she stood before the firing squad: Life is an illusion.
-Mata Hari

Sabda