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.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.

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

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.