What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is
Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of
Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so
that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers?
Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women's voices had been equally
heard and respected throughout history, humankind would have
followed different hero myths and guiding stories-stories that
value caretaking, champion compassion, and elevate communication
over vengeance and violence. Cassandra Speaks is about the stories
we tell and how those stories become the culture. It's about the
stories we still blindly cling to, and the ones that cling to us:
the origin tales, the guiding myths, the religious parables, the
literature and films and fairy tales passed down through the
centuries about women and men, power and war, sex and love, and the
values we live by. Stories written mostly by men with lessons and
laws for all of humanity. We have outgrown so many of them, and
still they endure. This book is about what happens when women are
the storytellers too-when we speak from our authentic voices, when
we flex our values, when we become protagonists in the tales we
tell about what it means to be human. Lesser has walked two main
paths in her life-the spiritual path and the feminist one-paths
that sometimes cross but sometimes feel at cross-purposes.
Cassandra Speaks is her extraordinary merging of the two. The
bestselling author of Broken Open and Marrow, Lesser is a beloved
spiritual writer, as well as a leading feminist thinker. In this
book she gives equal voice to the cool water of her meditative self
and the fire of her feminist self. With her trademark gifts of both
humor and insight, she offers a vision that transcends the
either/or ideologies on both sides of the gender debate.
Brilliantly structured into three distinct parts, Part One explores
how history is carried forward through the stories a culture tells
and values, and what we can do to balance the scales. Part Two
looks at women and power and expands what it means to be
courageous, daring, and strong. And Part Three offers "A Toolbox
for Inner Strength." Lesser argues that change in the culture
starts with inner change, and that no one-woman or man-is immune to
the corrupting influence of power. She provides inner tools to help
us be both strong-willed and kind-hearted. Cassandra Speaks is a
beautifully balanced synthesis of storytelling, memoir, and
cultural observation. Women, men and all people will find
themselves in the pages of this book, and will come away
strengthened, opened, and ready to work together to create a better
world for all people.
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