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Divine Daughters calls on mothers, daughters, and sisters everywhere to reclaim their own voices by living "an out-loud devotion to freedom"—singing, whispering, speaking—and to respect their essential passions along the way. Deeply rooted in Rachel Bagby's life story, Divine Daughters is about the power of speech, the power of silence, the power of sound and the power of storytelling.

Lyrically told, Bagby's story is at time painfully honest about her own struggles to find her true voice and relationship with "Life Itself." She reveals the power of voice with stories about courage and shame, forgiveness, infidelity, equality, and ecology. She asks us to articulate compassion every day and to amplify the daughterly divinity in spiritual texts, legend, folktale, custom, and creation stories. Finally, she emphasizes the importance of nurturing our daughters voices and charges women everywhere to help create restorative communities that "consistently give voice to life."

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REVIEWS OF DIVINE DAUGHTERS

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., author of Goddesses in Everywoman and Crossing to Avalon
"An exceptionally stirring and perceptive personal story that is absorbing, and a source of insight and inspiration into bringing the divine daughter archetype to life."

Naomi Wolf, author of Promiscuities
"As an instinctive, truly original voice, Rachel Bagby has written the tale of a journey of spiritual, literary and political awakening to self-authority. Divine Daughters breaks the boundaries of the usual narratives about coming into power as a woman in America by showing how the soul, while informed by it's experiences of race and gender, need not be limited by stereotypes or categories."

Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence
"Rachel Bagby is an inspiration, a gift, a divine voice for our time."

Terry Tempest Williams, author of Desert Quartet
"Divine Daughters is a hymn to the power of one woman's voice. Rachel Bagby embodies a voice of sanity. Through her courage and capacity to listen, she sings down the chants of slavery and bigotry and longing and begins a new song of healing and reverence for all life. Within her heart and the heart of her family and community, we recognize an awakening. This is a story of grace. After reading this book, I walked outside to a quiet place. I could still hear the bittersweet music rising from these pages, offerings of bold peace."

Carol Lee Flinders, author of At the Root of This Longing and Enduring Grace
"May I never again use a phrase like 'finding voice' or 'embodied knowledge' as though I thought I knew what it meant. Rachel Bagby has picked me up gently and shaken me hard, and for all she has taught me I am forever grateful. For it's one thing to know in a general way that sexism is intimately connected with racism. But Divine Daughters takes us way past theory, to the places deep inside ourselves where "othering" has hurt us the most, and where our own acts of "othering" start as well: more than that, it offers us powerful strategies -- whole-voiced, whole-bodied, redemptive and sometimes riotous -- for turning it all around."

Carolyn Brown, Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
"This is a narrative of deep seeing and clear feeling. Rachel, the wounded healer, offers us the transforming solace of her truth."

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