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"So loving to my mother That he might not esteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly." – William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" (1600-02), Act I, scene 2, line 140.
"The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts — Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be." – Starhawk, as quoted in "Womanspirit Rising : A Feminist Reader in Religion" (1979).
"The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create…
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