Missing Witches Quotes

“The MEs are the Sumerian understanding of the relationship between humanity and the gods. A ME is a world-ordering power. My English-speaking brain took awhile to get over ME not meaning Me, Myself, I. But I find it a delightful and useful mistake to keep making. A declaration that makes all life possible? That’s Me. The human condition? That’s Me. A world-ordering power? That’s Me. In the battle against Shame, it is beneficial to think of oneself as being fundamental to the understanding of the relationship between humanity and the gods.”
― Risa Dickens, Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic

“And every act of compassion for ourselves and others is kindling for our holy hearts.”
― Risa Dickens, Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic

“Enheduanna begged: “Precious Queen / Rekindle for me / your holy heart.”
― Risa Dickens, Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic

“Shame is a great force, capable of controlling large patches of our environments, our bodies, and our lives, and it is created to be WEAPONIZED.”
― Risa Dickens, Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic

“Inga Muscio wrote, and I’m onboard and I hope you are too, that it does not matter if they are biological, surgical or metaphorical. A cunt’s a cunt.”
― Risa Dickens, Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic

“These rituals that mark the passage of time contain symbols that are so ingrained in our lives yet so divorced from their origins that they appear both perfectly normal and comically absurd.”
― Amy Torok, Missing Witches: Recovering the True Histories of Feminist Magic