The Hundredth Woman :

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Summary: Amazingly passionate, insightful and thorough!
Review: The Hundreth Woman is the most delightful, stunning, rejuvinating book i've read in quite awhile! This soul cleansing work of art, continues to touch me in ways I never knew possible. I would definately promote this one to my friends and co-workers.

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Summary: Recovery for Feminine Spirituality
Review: This is the book that can heal all the damage done by collisions with religious/societal dogma and glass ceilings. Every woman should read this book from start to finish, and then start reading it again. It deserves to be the best selling book of this millennium--and no doubt will be as its readers pass it on to other readers, a process now well underway.

Morgan, Clarissa, Serena, Brigid and Big Mom, the protagonists of the story, remind women of who we are--and who everyone knew we were before we were defined by outdated and always false misogynic ideology and fear perpetrated by religious, political and societal systems for at least 2000 years. Of course, other books have done that, so you might well ask, "So what's be big deal about this one?"

The answer is that this is a positive book for everyone. It not only restores pride in themselves for women, but it very gently points out that allowing women to express their own natures and exercise their strength is a positive thing not only for us women, but for our male counterparts and in fact for the planet itself. And if that weren't enough to make reading this book worthwhile for everyone, Kate Green manages to put all that into a story that is enormously readable and--can you believe it--FUN!! Nobody in this book wants to stamp out the males of the species--just to avoid the negative ones. That's fair enough, isn't it?

Green has studied feminine/goddess traditions around the world, often living with the indigenous people from whom she was learning. Her very valid conclusion, so beautifully presented in "THW", is that the positive feminine spirit is still alive and unconquered by religion, societies, and by the self-doubt of every woman who holds that spark of the divine inside herself--and that's every woman, whether she is aware of it or not. Further, it will make every man of quality eager to encourage all the females in his sphere of influence to express her true self and make her mark on the world.

Are the women in this book perfect? Not at all, but they are growing in personal strength and finding enough of that to enable them to reach out to one another and around the world to restore the strength and beauty that is the female spirit. You know at the end of the book that the best is yet to be--and that you, the reader, are going to be part of it.

Call "THW" a modern myth or Everywoman allegory or whatever you please. Ultimately The Hundredth Woman spirit is destined to spread and truly save the world. Another "hundredth woman" gave the book to me, and I have already started passing it on.

The Hundredth Woman spirit is spreading, and we are all going to be blessed by it.

Awomen!

Rating:
Summary: Recovery for Feminine Spirituality
Review: This is the book that can heal all the damage done by collisions with religious/societal dogma and glass ceilings. Every woman should read this book from start to finish, and then start reading it again. It deserves to be the best selling book of this millennium--and no doubt will be as its readers pass it on to other readers, a process now well underway.

Morgan, Clarissa, Serena, Brigid and Big Mom, the protagonists of the story, remind women of who we are--and who everyone knew we were before we were defined by outdated and always false misogynic ideology and fear perpetrated by religious, political and societal systems for at least 2000 years. Of course, other books have done that, so you might well ask, "So what's be big deal about this one?"

The answer is that this is a positive book for everyone. It not only restores pride in themselves for women, but it very gently points out that allowing women to express their own natures and exercise their strength is a positive thing not only for us women, but for our male counterparts and in fact for the planet itself. And if that weren't enough to make reading this book worthwhile for everyone, Kate Green manages to put all that into a story that is enormously readable and--can you believe it--FUN!! Nobody in this book wants to stamp out the males of the species--just to avoid the negative ones. That's fair enough, isn't it?

Green has studied feminine/goddess traditions around the world, often living with the indigenous people from whom she was learning. Her very valid conclusion, so beautifully presented in "THW", is that the positive feminine spirit is still alive and unconquered by religion, societies, and by the self-doubt of every woman who holds that spark of the divine inside herself--and that's every woman, whether she is aware of it or not. Further, it will make every man of quality eager to encourage all the females in his sphere of influence to express her true self and make her mark on the world.

Are the women in this book perfect? Not at all, but they are growing in personal strength and finding enough of that to enable them to reach out to one another and around the world to restore the strength and beauty that is the female spirit. You know at the end of the book that the best is yet to be--and that you, the reader, are going to be part of it.

Call "THW" a modern myth or Everywoman allegory or whatever you please. Ultimately The Hundredth Woman spirit is destined to spread and truly save the world. Another "hundredth woman" gave the book to me, and I have already started passing it on.

The Hundredth Woman spirit is spreading, and we are all going to be blessed by it.

Awomen!