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Page 22
What I carried away in the end was a determination to heal - insofar as an
individual woman can , and as much as possible with other women - the
separation between mind and body ; never again to lose myself both psychically I
and ...
What I carried away in the end was a determination to heal - insofar as an
individual woman can , and as much as possible with other women - the
separation between mind and body ; never again to lose myself both psychically I
and ...
Page 71
It began to be possible to imagine some universal earlier civilization in which
motherright , not father - right , prevailed ; in which matrilineality and matrifocality
played a part ; in which women were active and admired participants in all of
culture ...
It began to be possible to imagine some universal earlier civilization in which
motherright , not father - right , prevailed ; in which matrilineality and matrifocality
played a part ; in which women were active and admired participants in all of
culture ...
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For those of us who had children , and later came to recognize and act upon the
breadth and depth of our feelings for women , a complex new bond with our
mothers is possible . The poet Sue Silvermarie writes : I find now , instead of a ...
For those of us who had children , and later came to recognize and act upon the
breadth and depth of our feelings for women , a complex new bond with our
mothers is possible . The poet Sue Silvermarie writes : I find now , instead of a ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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