Judith Plaskow famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When we touch the place in our lives where sexuality and spirituality come together, we touch our wholeness and the fullness of our power, and at the same time our connection with a power larger than ourselves.
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I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.
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If all are created in the divine image, then our images of God must be fluid and multifarious.
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For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.
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If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.
-- Judith Plaskow
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Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.
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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
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I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.
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From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.
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God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
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I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.
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Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.
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