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Hi
Stephanie:
Congratulations -
The Awakened Woman is awesome!!!! The articles are really
excellent and the whole concept is wonderful. Hope it
attracts many, many, many readers - you're saying what
needs to be said. Brava!!! Many good wishes for a great
success!
Bright Equinox
Blessings,
Sandra
[Stanton]
Dear
Diane,
Love your new
zine! Especially liked the combination of spirit and
politics; I think that's especially needed in today's
world. I enjoyed the whole issue, especially the
interview with Starhawk, who I have yet to
meet.
Will try to get a
review of your zine in an upcoming issue...
Goddess-luck on
your fabulous new venture!
Blessed
Be,
Anne Newkirk
Niven
Editor,
SageWoman
AWe,
Congradulations!
Loving the mag and turning my
friends on to your publication. Am honored you liked and
used the partial words to my song, Power of a Woman.
(thanks for the correction made by Stephanie.) Glad for
the informative articles and vision you hold forth.
Particularly appreciative of the Helen Caldicott material
at this time. It just feels great that you're creating
such a deep forum on-line. Would love to offer you some
astrological perspectives when time permits!
Many good wishes on this good
road,
Coral Cadman
I have no idea
how I ended up on this web site - I am an organic farmer
and it is snowing outside and both my brain and hands are
frozen.. So Icome in to thaw out by the fire and the next
thing I know I am reading about you tromping off to see
Starhawk in search of a revolution only to get a dose of
Sonoma county permaculture instead.. That was the first
real good heartwarming laugh I have had in days - my
hands are now warm. Thank you.
I'm now your
number one fan in Quebec, bravo on the e-zine or what
ever one calls these things. Hey do you have a book I
should go out and buy? If not then I look forward to the
day. I can't wait for the December issue - by that time
I'll be frozen solid and in desprate need of another
heartwarming chuckle. Be well.
Merci, Jane Mac
Leod
Women's
Equality Day August 26
On July 13, 1848, five women met
for tea in upstate New York. Having commiserated about
the lot of women in American society, they did something
brash and wonderful. . . they sent off a notice to the
local newspaper announcing "a convention to discuss the
social, civil, and religious conditions and rights of
woman" to be held just six days later in Seneca
Falls.
The Women's Rights Movement was
born!
Perhaps inspired by the
sovereignty of Iroquois women, convention participants
drafted a Declaration of Sentiments which began: "We hold
these truths to be self-evident, That all men and women
are created equal. . ." One of the resolutions called for
universal women's suffrage. One hundred womenand men from
all walks of life signed that Declaration. Only
one,nineteen-year-old Charlotte Woodward, lived to see
women win the vote.
On August 26, 1920, after a
72-year struggle, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution
of the U.S. was finally ratified, granting women the
right tovote nationwide.
President Carter designated
August 26 as Women's Equality Day, as a reminder of
women's continuing efforts for equality
from
Gerri Gribi's Homepage
An
Offering
I offer the following with
love. I hope you can find a place for it in your
magazine.
Blessings, Jo Pettit
Violetfair@aol.com
Crone
I am the Goddess Hecate,
Crone Goddess of Wisdom and Death.
I live within you.
When you listen to that small, clear voice,
you are Wise, you are Crone.
Blood ceases, Wisdom grows.
Compassion is an expression of
Wisdom,
although it's not always
nice.
This is not a time for womyn to be nice!
Womyn have been nice, quiet and
afraid, for thousands of years and
look what it's gotten us!
The world is in a desperate
state.
Patriarchy is killing our precious Mother and, with
Her,
-- our Selves!
our Children, our Beauty, our Love.
It's time to take back our
Power
and claim it as our Own!
It's time to speak our Truth!
(It's time for you to speak Your Truth!)
Quit pussy-footing around
and change things - NOW!
Nice little girls seldom
make
anything happen
But irascible old Hags
can really shake things up!
So, embrace me, open to
me.
Re-member your Selves by
remembering Me!
I am Hecate - the
Crone,
the Hag, the Keeper of
the
Crossroads.
I am You!
July
Fourth Liberation Poem
We make love
for the women who can't
who won't
the women who don't.