“I’ve been thinking about the implications of what it means when women say, ‘I want to live in my body’ or ‘I want to get back in touch with my body’ or ‘I need to get out of my head.’…Coming from the values and cosmology of She Who Is Whole Unto Herself, my body is my home, sovereign and holy….If you are not living inside your body, where are you living? And who has taken up residence inside you in your absence? Whose stories do you believe? And whose agenda does that serve? If you are divided from your body, you are divided against yourself. You are homeless in the most dire sense of the word.I want to ask every women:When did you leave home? Why did you leave?Do you ever come home to visit? How long do you stay?What would happen if you returned to stay?What would it take for you to come home for good?”—
Ruth Barrett
from Our Holy Book Has Always Been Our Female Flesh and Blood
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