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Mother Wove the Morning: A One-Woman Play
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Published
October 28th 1992
by Pearson Publications Company
(first published October 1992)
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I read this book reader's theater style with some friends. It includes monologues from gnostics and other early Christians, down to Emma Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and CLP's voice. Some sections are really hard to read and made me infuriated at the way women have been silenced and marginalized throughout history, particularly by religious institutions.
I love the last section at the end where CLP has her daughter close her eyes and imagine what a kind God looks like and then asks her if she...more
I love the last section at the end where CLP has her daughter close her eyes and imagine what a kind God looks like and then asks her if she...more
I love this. I read it last week and have been thinking about it so much since then. I am reading it again now. I don't even quite know how to express how much it has touched me. It has opened my eyes and mind to a new way of thinking about God and Woman. I love everything about this play. Just the introduction alone totally changed my way of thinking about the world. This book is a little hard to track down but so worth it! And it can be read in under an hour.
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Met Carol Lynn Pearson and got 4 copies of her book. Maybe I'll suggest it to the ward book club, if they haven't read it already (they've been doing this book club for 30 years, so every book I suggest has already been read!).
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This has been on my shelf for a while and I have simply been too afraid to read it. That sounds silly, but I have. I've been too afraid that it would be sad and I would end up in tears and hopeless. I started it last night and finished it this morning- it probably...more
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This has been on my shelf for a while and I have simply been too afraid to read it. That sounds silly, but I have. I've been too afraid that it would be sad and I would end up in tears and hopeless. I started it last night and finished it this morning- it probably...more
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I first saw this play 20 yrs ago and it was very influential for me. The references she included in her program was a great reading list for me. I read all of the books I could find at the time. They were pivotal in my efforts to decide what I thought for myself on the issues of women and Mormonism.
Ronda
Ronda
Very well done. Pearson does an excellent, succinct job of giving many voices a simple and compelling framework in which to speak. I will re-read this frequently. It's a small, but important masterpiece.
Dan read it before I did and loved it too :)
Wonderful wonderful wonderful book :)
Wonderful wonderful wonderful book :)
Read for book group.
Some lovely, moving characters, but I must confess that I've never been much of a fan of reading plays.
I love Carol Lynn Pearson's style. Her feelings and characters are always real, honest and cut through any trendy political correctness or religious propriety and get to what people really feel and experience. Her books on homosexuality bring me to tears, but for some reason I don't find myself relating to her feelings about being a woman in quite the same way. Good writing, I'm sure many women love them, but they don't strike the same chord inside my soul.
Saw the play and had to get the book. Pearson brings to life women and their relationship with God/religion beginning with very primitive society and ending right up here in the 20th century. She's made a DVD and a video of the play - highly recommended.
Saw Carol herself do this play twice, many years ago. I wonder if I would love it as much today, or even more? Thoughtful portrayals of women through out history and their connection to a feminine divine.
Carol Lynn Pearson is amazing! I've enjoyed all of her work that I have read and this was no different.
This woman wrote a play about Heavenly Mother. I liked it.
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From http://www.clpearson.com/about_me.htm
In fourth grade, in Gusher, Utah, I won four dollars in a school district essay contest on “Why We Should Eat a Better Breakfast.” And yes, this morning I had a bowl of my own excellent granola, followed by a hike in the hills near my home in Walnut Creek, California.
In high school I began writing in earnest. I have now in my files a folder marked “Poetry,...more
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In fourth grade, in Gusher, Utah, I won four dollars in a school district essay contest on “Why We Should Eat a Better Breakfast.” And yes, this morning I had a bowl of my own excellent granola, followed by a hike in the hills near my home in Walnut Creek, California.
In high school I began writing in earnest. I have now in my files a folder marked “Poetry,...more
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