Bring the medicine, the organ, and the disease together; see them touch your imagination and begin to flow into one another.

                                               

 -- Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Secret Teachings of Plants

Women have always experienced the reality of self and community, known it, and shared it with each other. Yet, living in a world in which they are devalued, their experience bears the stigma of in-significance. Thus they have learned to mistrust their own experience and devalue it. What wisdom can there be in menses? What source of knowledge in the milk-filled breast? What food for abstraction in the daily routine of feeding and cleaning?  

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  -- Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy

We are all healers in the Wise Woman tradition. Self-healing and self-loving, we co-create our allies. Our allies are our problems; they bring us gifts of wholeness. Our allies are wise women; they support us in our transformation. Our allies are green allies, wild plants; they supply us with optimum nutrition.

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- Susun S. Weed, Healing Wise

A woman making dinner is invisible. To claim that she is engaged in healing her family and her community and keeping her universe in balance is a lot to claim for dinner. This is the Wise Woman way.

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- Susun S. Weed, Healing Wise