Matal “The Mischling Princess” Baker

“The biblical prophets weren’t popular in their time, but it was their blunt rebukes—Isaiah’s admonitions and Jeremiah’s warnings—that forced society to reckon with its moral failings and try to do better.”
― Angela Buchdahl, Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging

“Many Pagans will tell you that polytheism is an attitude and a perspective that affect more than what we consider to be religion. They might well say that the constant calls for unity, integration, and homogenization in the Western world derive from our long-standing ideology of monotheism, which remains the majority tradition in the West. They might add that monotheism is a political and psychological ideology as well as a religious one, and that the old economic lesson that one-crop economies generally fare poorly also applies to the spiritual realm.”
― Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

“You will ultimately succeed if you tune into your people, help them sing their song. But be aware of what you are actually needing when you do. Everyone wants affirmation. But if we rely on approval from the people we serve, we fail at leadership; we will make decisions based on whether or not we’ll be popular and loved.”
― Angela Buchdahl, Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging

“Once people became comfortable in the Craft, the old lies began to dissolve. That they did so quickly is an insight into the flexibility of Wicca.”
― Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America