The Dance of the Dissident Daughter (40 page)

60.
      
Meinrad Craighead,
The Mother's Song: Images of God the Mother
(New York: Paulist Press, 1986), vii.

61.
      
Daly,
Beyond God the Father
, 41.

62.
      
Madonna Kolbenschlag,
Lost in the Land of Oz: The Search for Identity and Community in American Life
(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988), 81.

63.
      
Sappho: A New Translation
, trans. Mary Barnard (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1958), poem no. 8.

PART FOUR: EMPOWERMENT

1.
          
Madonna Kolbenschlag,
Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-bye
(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979), 196.

2.
          
Carolyn G. Heilbrun,
Writing a Woman's Life
(New York: Ballantine, 1988), 18.

3.
          
Eleanor Rae and Bernice Marie-Daly,
Created in Her Image: Models of the Feminine Divine
(New York: Crossroad, 1990), 101.

4.
          
The story with photograph was reported in
USA Today
, February 24, 1994, 8E.

5.
          
Ursula K. Le Guin,
Dancing at the Edge of the World
(New York: Harper & Row, 1989), 159–60.

6.
          
See Sue Monk Kidd, “The Secret Life of Bees,”
Nimrod: International Journal
37, no. 1 (Fall—Winter 1993): 21–30.

7.
          
Mary Catherine Bateson,
Composing a Life
(New York: Plume Penguin Books, 1989), 169.

8.
          
Clarissa Pinkola Estés,
Women Who Run with the Wolves
(New York: Ballantine, 1992), 318.

9.
          
Cited in Brenda Ueland,
If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit
(St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1987), 40.

10.
      
Ann Belford Ulanov,
Receiving Woman: Studies in the Psychology and the Theology of the Feminine
(Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1981), 118.

11.
      
Esther Harding,
Woman's Mysteries: Ancient and Modern
(New York: Harper & Row, 1971), 102, 103.

12.
      
Charlene Spretnak,
Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1978), 87.

13.
      
Mirabai, “Why Mira Can't Go Back to Her Old House,” in Robert Bly,
News of the Universe
(San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 256.

14.
      
Walt Whitman,
Leaves of Grass
(New York: Heritage Press, 1936), xxvii.

15.
      
Margaret Atwood,
Surfacing
(New York: Fawcett Crest, 1972), 17.

16.
      
Benjamin Hoff,
The Tao of Pooh
(New York: Penguin Books, 1982), 39, 43.

17.
      
Thich Nhat Hanh,
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
(New York: Bantam Books, 1991), 112.

18.
      
Estés,
Women Who Run
, 460.

19.
      
Linda Hogan,
That's What She Said: Contemporary Poetry and Fiction by Native American Women
, ed. Rayna Green (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1984), 172.

PERMISSIONS

1.
          
Mary Barnard.
Sappho: A New Translation.
Copyright © 1958 by The Regents of the University of California; copyright © renewed 1984 by Mary Barnard.

2.
          
Elizabeth A. Johnson.
She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse.
Copyright © 1992 by Elizabeth A. Johnson. Reprinted by permission of The Crossroad Publishing Co., New York.

3.
          
Cullen Murphy. “Women and the Bible.”
Atlantic Monthly
, August 1993, vol. 272 no. 2, 41–42.

4.
          
Anne A. Simpkinson. “A Self of One's Own.”
Common Boundary
, March/April 1990, vol. 8, no. 2.

5.
          
From
Selected Poems
, published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd., Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Copyright © Jenny Joseph 1992.

6.
          
Excerpted from “The Archeology of a Marriage” as published in
The Retrieval System.
Used by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd. Copyright © 1978 by Maxine Kumin.

7.
          
From “Why Mira Can't Go Back to Her Old House” in
News of the Universe
by Robert Bly. Copyright © 1980 by Robert Bly. Reprinted with permission of Sierra Club Books.

8.
          
“The Blanket Around Her,” in
Moon Drove Me to This?
by Joy Harjo. Reprinted by permission of the author.

9.
          
“The Women Speaking,” in
Daughters I Love You
by Linda Hogan. Reprinted by permission of the author.

10.
      
Excerpts from
Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
by Susan Griffin. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. For additional territory, please contact the author: 1027 Merced Street, Berkeley, CA 94707.

11.
      
Naomi Wolf.
Fire with Fire.
Copyright © 1993 by Fawcett Columbine. Reprinted with permission of Random House, Inc.

12.
      
From
And Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou. Copyright © 1978 by Maya Angelou. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

13.
      
May Sarton.
The House by the Sea.
Copyright © 1977 by May Sarton. Reprinted by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

14.
      
From “Kathe Kollwitze,” by Muriel Rukeyser,
A Muriel Rukeyser Reader
, W.W. Norton, New York. Copyright © 1994 by William Rukeyser.

15.
      
Excerpt from “Professions for Women” in
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
by Virginia Woolf. Copyright © 1942 by Harcourt Brace & Company and renewed 1970 by Marjorie T. Parsons, Executrix. Reprinted by permission of The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Virginia Wolf.

16.
      
From
The Kabir Book
by Robert Bly. Copyright © 1971, 1977 by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press.

17.
      
“Everyone is a Closet Mystic: An Interview with Andrew Harvey.”
Inquiring Mind
, Volume II, No. 1.

18.
      
From “Reclaiming Lost Altars.” First printed in
Encore Magazine
, Vol. II, No. 5. 604 Pringle Ave., #91, Galt, CA 95632.

19.
      
From Sue Monk Kidd, “Weeping with Dolphins.”
Pilgrimage: Reflections on the Human Journey
, May/August 1993. 135 Sequoyah Ridge Rd., Highlands, NC 28741.

20.
      
Judith Plaskow and Carol P. Christ, eds.,
Weaving the Visions: Patterns in Feminist Spirituality.
Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

21.
      
From
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
by Ntozake Shange. Copyright © 1975, 1976, 1977 by Ntozake Shange. Reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster.

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