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Lilith Lilith by Nikki Marmery
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“God had commanded: Be fruitful and multiply! It costs men nothing and women everything.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“You took by force what you always had by love.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“That men would have them believe disobedience was Eve’s vice, when it was her greatest virtue.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“For women everywhere. Be your own gods. Your Mother commands it.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“Strange how the signs always fall in the favor of he who reads them.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“Women bring life into the world. To denigrate women is to degrade life itself. There must be equality, not domination. Harmony, not hierarchy. Compassion, not violence. Women must be cherished as we cherish this world that sustains us.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“He tolerated my fury. He shared it on my behalf, gently nodding his assent. He never tried to calm my rage.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“We shall never overcome death,” said Maryam. “It is futile to try. Keep your eyes on this world, for there is no other. If you love life, you must accept death and never fear it.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“Why do you yearn to live forever? Is it right? Is it natural? Why do you seek to be led, judged, and punished?”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“In the time to come Eve would be reviled. Her disobedience, so it was claimed, the root of all sin, the origin of death itself. What power this one woman had! What an achievement. To invent death against the wishes of an ever-loving god.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“He names and it is so. He breathes and gives it life. It’s why Adam loves to name things too. Naming is to man what birthing is to woman. They can name things all they like”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“I never did believe in luck. Nor”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“safe there from those who cannot tolerate other gods.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“men would have them believe disobedience was Eve’s vice, when it was her greatest virtue.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“the consequence of the lost goddess. The degradation, demotion, the subjugation of all women.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“Green fields and lofty forests will shrivel and die. The seas will froth with waste, rivers will run dry, skies will be poisoned with black smoke. I saw people everywhere, like locusts, who do not cherish the earth from which we came. Who think they possess it. Taking from it, never replenishing.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“Barren Lilith, shrivelled Lilith! Artificer of fraud!”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“He has no power beyond His believers.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“Eve’s sin would justify the abuse of women thereafter. As she succumbed to temptation, so would her daughters. As she led man astray, so would all women who followed. Henceforth, all women would be punished for the sake of Eve.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“Asherah”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“Subsistence was no longer enough. Always, he wanted more. Always he wanted to control.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“Love is never wrong. It is always good.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“Gods are made by belief and undone by disbelief.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“I wandered the city.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“Without Her divine protection, with all female power banished, it was a place of subjection and tyranny. Of perpetual stasis, not regeneration. Of Shalts and Shalt Nots issued by male authority. A place of masculine hierarchy, domination, and progress, unbalanced by the female urge to nurture, sustain, and renew.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“We were born of this world. There is but one. One world, one life given to each of us. No god is set above nature. No man above woman. As we are not above, nor apart from, this world that nurtures us. Women bring life into the world. To denigrate women is to degrade life itself. There must be equality, not domination. Harmony, not hierarchy. Compassion, not violence. Women must be cherished as we cherish this world that sustains us.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“Women bring life into the world. To denigrate women is to degrade life itself. There must be equality, not domination. Harmony, not hierarchy. Compassion, not violence. Women must be cherished as we cherish this world that sustains us. We had a Mother once, but She is gone. Returned to the earth that birthed Her. But Her eternal Wisdom lives on. Nourished by it, we too shall bud and bear fruit. In death, we shall return to the earth and live on only in our children. We possess no soul to be redeemed, or judged, or measured. There can be no afterlife, no heavenly authority. We are enough. In our opposites, we are complete.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“subjection, entirely, to men. What should have been balanced was unequal. The half mistaken for the whole. Humanity meant men alone. Women were an afterthought. Lesser, inferior. The servants. Often, slaves.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“He names and it is so. He breathes and gives it life. It’s why Adam loves to name things too. Naming is to man what birthing is to woman. They can name things all they like, it does not change the truth. Life comes from a Mother.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith
“the power to give life comes with the right to deny it.”
Nikki Marmery, Lilith

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