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Book Description  
A pathbreaking anthology representing a tradition of the prophetic and practical wisdom of women's spirituality. Spiritual experience is a liberating source of women's identity and their resistance to oppression. Moving from the Native American tale "The Creation of Spider Woman" and the poet-nun of Mexico Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz to the contemporary African American thinker Marian Wright Edelman and the Buddhist shaman Joan Halifax, these visionaries see justice and love, loss, aging, and freedom. It inspires them to artistic expression and political action. This deeply moving collection of memoirs, stories, poetry, letters, prayers, and theologies is a source of empowering and uplifting thought for women in any time, at any age. 

Synopsis  
Spiritual experience is a liberating source of women's identity and their resistance to oppression. This deeply moving collection of memoirs, stories, poetry, letters, prayers, and theologies is a source of empowering and uplifting thought for women in any time, at any age. 

Synopsis  
Spiritual experience has always been, and is especially today, a liberating source of women's identity and their resistance to oppression. This pathbreaking anthology represents 2,000 years of the prophetic and practical wisdom of women's spirituality, featuring writings that range from Ishtar of Babylonia and Isis of Egypt to the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen to contemporary African-American poet Lucille Clifton and Buddhist shaman Joan Hilfax. 

Synopsis  
Collecting more than two thousand years worth of women's words of wisdom, a unique anthology contains poetry, essays, prayers, letters, and memoirs concentrating on the liberation of spiritual awareness and written by eminent women from across the ages. 

About the Author  
Susan Cahill lives in New York City.