Lasara Firefox Allen, MSW > Quotes

“Silencing others when they have a challenging story to share is not a benefit to anyone. More often than anything we silence others not out of concern for them, but out of fear of facing discomfort. Silencing the conversation when difficult things arise is just another way we keep one another down.”
― Lasara Firefox Allen, Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality

“There is power in words. As workers of magick, we must believe this if we believe anything.”
― Lasara Firefox Allen, Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality

“Femella can talk to creatures living and nonliving. She communes with the wee folk and the elfin. She knows the secrets of the untamed places. She believes, and because she believes, she can see.”
― Lasara Firefox Allen, Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality

“Our work-worn hands, our strong legs, our tree-trunk backs, our throats and mouths speaking spells, singing incantations, and screaming out warnings, our bodies and our stories and our ceaseless working, loving, fighting for remembrance of our past and hope for our future, the safety of our loved ones, the knowledge of our ways, all these have been the true magickal tools of our survival.”
― Lasara Firefox Allen