Lilith was cast out of the Garden for a lack of sexual submissiveness, Jewish legend tells us. The first woman created by Yahweh, by Jehovah God, was born of dust, like Adam—a signal of her equality that a misogynist creator would rectify with Eve the second time around. The stories say that Lilith’s sin was in wanting to be on top, but I sometimes wonder if she was exiled from Paradise for saying no. One thing is sure: she is a woman of myth who prefers the eternal wilderness to marital submission, the solitude of a cave to sharing a man’s bed—or obeying a god who would order her to do so, no
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