Leaving My Father's House Quotes

“Why put them through the danger of the fire? And then, I heard, as though it spoke, the voice of the guardian-head: "Each piece must go through the fire. The cowl, the wings, the pneuma, the source, the flow. All must go the way that I have gone. Each may crack in the process, as I have cracked. But look, the crack has healed. I did not break. Without the fire, the piece is untested, unlived, raw. Each must go through the fire.”
― Marion Woodman, Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity

“If as daughters our umbilical cord is connected to male values (our father's or mother's or both), then in adult life we think our very survival depends upon obeisance to patriarchal standards. We have to be 36-24-36, we have to measure up, we have to have backbone. Unconsciously, we are driven to fulfill expectations that may have little to do with who we are. So unconscious is the driving voice in these complexes that our bodies may have to break down before we recognize that we are slaves to an inner dictator.”
― Marion Woodman, Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity

“Conscious femininity...has to do with bringing the wisdom in nature to consciousness. For too long we have taken the instinctual Mother Goddess for granted. In our own bodies, in our Earth, we have assumed she would nourish and protect us. We have wallowed in sentimental images. Over centuries, we have forgotten her, reviled her, raped her. Now we will either integrate her laws into consciousness or we will die. There is an evolutionary process at work on our planet and we can only hope that out of this present death, sanity will come.”
― Marion Woodman, Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity

“In the turmoil of our time, we are being called to a new order of reality. Working toward that consciousness, we suffer, but our suffering opens us to the wounds of the world and the love that can heal. It is our immediate task to relate to the emerging feminine whether she comes to us in dreams, in the loss of those we love, in body disease, or in ecological distress. Each of us in our own way is being brought face to face with Her challenge.”
― Marion Woodman, Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity

“In the turmoil of our time, we are being called to a new order of reality. Working toward that consciousness, we suffer, but our suffering opens us to the wounds of the world and the love that can heal. It is our immediate task to relate to the emerging feminine whether she comes to us in dreams, in the loss of those we love, in body disease, or in ecological distress. Each of us in our own way is being Brough face to face with Her challenge.”
― Marion Woodman, Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity