Extracts form BEYOND GOD THE FATHER, Beacon Press, Boston.

Liberation involves a castration of sexist language.

To exist humanly is to name the self, the world, and God ... the evolving spiritual consciousness of women is nothing less than the beginning to speak humanly — the reclaiming of the right to name.

Women will free traditions, thought, and customs only by hearing each other and thus making it possible to speak our word.

... to women ... who choose to break out of man-made mind-molds ... GODDESS ... can become our broom, our flying Nightmare.

... the entire conceptual systems of theology and ethics, developed under the conditions of patriarchy, have been the products of males and tend to serve the interests of sexist society.

Feminists are accustomed to enduring such labels as "castrating females". Some have rightly retorted that is "to castrate" essentially means to deprive of power, potency, creativity, and the ability to communicate, then indeed it is women who have been castrated by a sexist society.

... women are terrorized into amnesia and made afraid to know the full implications of patriarchal power. For many know enough to know that real knowledge implies participation in the Craft/Wisdom of Witches and that this knowing is a crime punishable by death.