The prophetic and practical wisdom of women – that the gift of life comes with the responsibility to love and protect it wherever we find it, regardless of particular identifications within borders of race, religion, gender and class – has never waned.
Vision and conscience are its continuing signs; hope and anger its dissonant emotional tones. The anger is induced by the vast evidence of the waste of the lives of many and the feast of life reserved for the privileged few.

Page 160, wise women: over 2000 years of spiritual writing by women. edited by susan cahill, 1996