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Cultures that develop around the notion of an authoritarian Father God inevitably oppress those who do not fit the image of the all-powerful, adult, human male: children, women, homosexuals, and the nonhuman communities of animal, plant, and mineral life with which we live and share the planet.
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Laurie Cabot (Power of the Witch: The Earth, the Moon, and the Magical Path to Enlightenment)