Top 21 Quotes by Carol P. Christ

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

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.

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.

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

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

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

If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?

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

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.