You are requested to purchase the book yourself as it is, without question, essential reading material. Author of two unpublished novels, she is currently writing The Spiral Dance, a book on magic and earth religion. This essay was discussed at the 1977 meetings of the American Academy of Religion. I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women's bodies are one expression of that sacred being. My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism.
Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.
So, it also means challenging inequalities in race, class, sexual preference. What we need to be doing is not just changing who holds power, but changing the way we conceive of power. There is the power we're all familiar - with power over. But there is another kind of power - power from within. For a woman, it is the power to be fertile either in terms of having babies or writing books or dancing or baking bread or being a great organizer.