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#BESTSELLERCassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, theHuman Story ChangesSinopsis :What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Whyis Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about thefate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the futurebut cursed so that no one believed her? What if women hadbeen the storytellers?Elizabeth Lesser believes that ifwomen&#8217voices had been equally heard and respectedthroughout history, humankind would have followed differenthero myths and guiding stories&#8212toies that valuecaretaking, champion compassion, and elevate communicationover vengeance and violence. Cassandra Speaks is about thestories we tell and how those stories become the culture.It&#8217about the stories we still blindly cling to, and the ones
that cling to us: the origin tales, the guiding myths, the religiousparables, the literature and films and fairy tales passed downthrough the centuries about women and men, power and war,sex and love, and the values we live by. Stories written mostlyby men with lessons and laws for all of humanity. We haveoutgrown so many of them, and still they endure. This book isabout what happens when women are the storytellerstoo&#8212whn we speak from our authentic voices, when weflex our values, when we become protagonists in the tales wetell about what it means to be human.Lesser has walked twomain paths in her life&#8212th spiritual path and the feministone&#8212pahs that sometimes cross but sometimes feel atcross-purposes. Cassandra Speaks is her extraordinarymerging of the two. The bestselling author of Broken Open andMarrow, Lesser is a beloved spiritual writer, as well as aleading feminist thinker. In this book she gives equal voice tothe cool water of her meditative self and the fire of her feministself. With her trademark gifts of both humor and insight, sheoffers a vision that transcends the either/or ideologies on bothsides of the gender debate.Brilliantly structured into threedistinct parts, Part One explores how history is carried forwardthrough the stories a culture tells and values, and what we cando to balance the scales. Part Two looks at women and powerand expands what it means to be courageous, daring, andstrong. And Part Three offers &#8220AToolbox for InnerStrength.&#8221Lesser argues that change in the culturestarts with inner change, and that no one&#8212woan orman&#8212isimmune to the corrupting influence of power.She provides inner tools to help us be both strong-willed andkind-hearted.Cassandra Speaks is a beautifully balancedsynthesis of storytelling, memoir, and cultural observation.Women, men and all people will find themselves in the pagesof this book, and will come away strengthened, opened, andready to work together to create a better world for all people.

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