Lilith Quotes

“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

“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

“How can woman be made of man? Man is of woman born! He knows this, for he has seen the animals birthed. Is he now her mother?”
― Nikki Marmery, Lilith

“already Creation needs a restart.” “What did you see? Will the new world be scoured clean?” Norea looked up. The new moon slipped above the silhouette of the mountain, to be greeted by an owl from the netted aviary. “Far from it. It will become filthier than ever. I can scarce understand what I saw. 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

“Creator who favoured only His followers—and half of them at that—spread across the world. Each of these one-gods commanding an army of the faithful. All intolerant in their righteousness. Incapable of co-existence. Disrespectful of difference. And just as they dominated women and other men, so they plundered this earth. Their hoped-for afterlife shifted their gaze from this world. Why care for it? Why cherish it, if there is something better to come?”
― Nikki Marmery, Lilith

“Your livelihoods? Is that what concerns you? Do you not have more care for your lives? For these men would press you to give them up, to abandon your children, and those you love.”
― Nikki Marmery, Lilith

“No one was ever loved more,” he says. “No one has endured more than I for you.”
― Nikki Marmery, Lilith

“I had never seen a human birth before. Had no conception of the horror, the bursting forth, the violence of it all. No mother to warn me what birthing life truly means. What a joke it was—an affront to all women—to parody life’s creation as one easeful puff of His breath. Only a man would imagine such a thing. This is what it truly entails: the blinding light of pain. A sacrifice of flesh. Disfigurement to create anew. How could it not be torment, to bring forth what is most precious: new life?”
― Nikki Marmery, Lilith

“You are a woman. You are already holy,” said Maryam. “What is holiness but the magic of Creation? Men will tell you they are the source of life, that they implant it in you, an empty vessel, as a seed is planted in the soil. But both the womb and the earth are where sacredness reside, for they create the child and the tree from nothing but a seed. A woman’s body is the source of all life. You must wear it with pride.”
― 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.”
― Nikki Marmery, Lilith

“He tells us that naming is Creation. 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.”
― Nikki Marmery, Lilith

“Their hoped for afterlife shifted their gaze from this world. Why care for it? Why cherish it? If there is something better to come. Why take any notice of it at all? This mere blink before the superior business of eternity.”
― Nikki Marmery, Lilith

“In time we came to the point that most closely concerned [the women]: that all life is precious, but Creation is a power to be used sparingly, not relentlessly, without care or concern for their health. That Wisdom demands they choose when and how often they bring new life into the world; the power to give life comes with the right to deny it.”
― Nikki Marmery, Lilith