The Moon Spun Round Quotes

“And it's at this moment, as she steps around the circle, that all the barriers between self and other fall away, and Sally feels the Goddess alive within her. Ah yes, now I understand: I am one with everything and everything is one with me. All women are part of me and I am all women.”
― Elenor Gill, The Moon Spun Round

“You're the vicar, too close to God to be confused with humanity and all its pitiful honesty.”
― Elenor Gill, The Moon Spun Round

“We asked for truth but we wanted revenge. For what our partners did, for what our fathers did. For a lifetime of bullying and suppression, of having to deny what we really are. How much anger is that?”
― Elenor Gill, The Moon Spun Round

“It's because we've lost touch with the goddess. That we're looking for salvation in all the wrong places.”
― Elenor Gill, The Moon Spun Round

“Women's god-forms have been taken, forbidden and destroyed. Only God the Father was allowed. The father, the first male image, a divine being for a girl child until she learns that he has feet of clay. But by then the damage is done, the pattern set. Jonathan. Yes, he was just like my father, and I followed him blindly until he turned out to be another false idol. The Goddess had been here all the time. The images and statues are only a means of finding her. Inside, that's where our Goddess is hidden, in the last place we'd think of looking.”
― Elenor Gill, The Moon Spun Round

“Well, maybe it's time we showed him what we women can do.”
― Elenor Gill, The Moon Spun Round

“And even though common sense tells them that what they're doing is wrong, their instincts tell them to shutter the windows and bolt the doors. Men in authority bring nothing but fear. They're at the door now, and they're carrying torches...”
― Elenor Gill, The Moon Spun Round

“They've all known and they've failed her. They let a man do this. What right did he have? To break another human being just because he could? How could a woman deserve this? To be beaten down, made to cower?”
― Elenor Gill, The Moon Spun Round

“The old religion. The Creator always was female, you know, worshipped her thousands of years before these new men-only religions turned up. Interesting how people are turning back to the old ways. Perhaps it's because women are finding their own strength and need a female deity to relate to. Our understanding of the purpose of life is different.”
― Elenor Gill, The Moon Spun Round

“It's her domain now, has become apart of her; it lives inside her skin as she lives within it's walls.”
― Elenor Gill, The Moon Spun Round

“That's the thing about being young, you believe you're invincible. When you get to my age you begin to realize nothings permeant, including yourself.”
― Elenor Gill, The Moon Spun Round

“She has cried before. But not like this. This isn't the pouting resentment that dissolves at the first gesture of remorse. This isn't the anger of a little girl lost, alone, grateful for the gift of reconciliation. This anger is surging, blood-red fury unleashed from a lifetime of denial.”
― Elenor Gill, The Moon Spun Round