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Cassandra Speaks
- When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
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Publisher's Summary
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 best-selling 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 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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- Sheila
- 2020-10-07
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This absolutely should be read by everyone. By women with caution: it enrages our Cassandras.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-02-28
Must read!
Greta book that every person must read! At it seems obvious by the title what this story is going to be about however Lesser goes deeper and opens up a very important dialogue that we all must have! Recommended to all my friends.
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- anita Bloom
- 2021-02-17
A must read
A powerful book, one I will read more than once. I have already recommended it to the important people in my life.
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- mommamia4
- 2021-01-02
A powerful message for creating a new world
Elizabeth Lesser is compassionate and passionate guide for all genders and we begin to dream and create this new world of equality, nurturing and growth. Built on year of witnessing, studying and working with some of the greatest minds and ideas of our time she weaves them with history and facts to help us see clearly where we are and why we are frustrated but also how to change the narrative and find and share all our collective strengths and gifts for a new future. This audible version in her voice is beautifully read with heartfelt moments where I literally felt the power of her prose and also the stirrings in my heart. This book inspires action and was my perfect start to the new year.
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- Andrea Brassard
- 2020-12-22
All Humans must read - especially women!
Excellent content. I will recommend to ALL the men and women in my life, and especially those interested in a broader perspective on what it means to be human!
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- Kelly Araujo
- 2020-11-14
A book everyone should read!!!
I loved this book. I think womxn and men of all backgrounds would benefit from reading this book.
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- Marlene Hilborn
- 2020-11-09
This Book!
This Book?
This is one of those books you never forget the first time you read it; You remember where you were when you read it, how each chapter was like discovering a new flavor as a child, and what your life was like at the time you first read this book. This is one of ‘those’ books. This is the book you want in hard copy for your library. This is one of those books you want to buy all your friends. This is one of those books you want to listen to, reread, highlight, flag, share, discuss and use for years to come, to remind yourself, about what’s in THIS BOOK!
My heartfelt thanks to Elizabeth Lesser for writing this book.
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- jamie gass
- 2020-11-12
Wow
This book helped me understand things about me I didn’t even know I didn’t know. Every woman who has felt lost, confused or frustrated with how they have been treated, or how they find themselves reacting to certain situations should read this.
Every man who says they want women to feel like they are equals should read this book.
Maybe, just maybe, it could help to change the footing between men and women.
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- Amber Miller
- 2020-11-23
Unlike anything I've ever read!
This book has quite possibly become my all time favorite. Thank you for opening my eyes and heart, I must share this with the world!
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- BB
- 2020-11-23
Devoured it!
As a mythologist, I love story as a doorway into deeper personal exploration. Cassandra Speaks unpacks a few of the foundational stories that set modern misogyny on its course and offers practices to help us grow and heal from the messages internalized from these stories. I hope modern people everywhere will read or listen to this book so we can all move forward with new interpretations of these bedrock stories and start to build societies upon more balanced foundations.
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- Yogi Dawn
- 2020-11-22
Empowering book!!!
Absolutely loved it!!! Reccomend everyone to read!!! I feel so empowered and encouraged. I'm going to buy it for so many women!
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- andrea
- 2020-11-19
Powerful Book!
I feel so grateful to Elizabeth Lesser and her circle of women for doing the work to write and share this powerful and incredibly important book. The message is clear, kind, empowering and timely - for women, for our world, it’s current events and shifts, as well as for me personally. #gratitude
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- Ann
- 2020-11-19
Wonderful!
I loved this book. I’m giving it to several young women I know for the holidays. I’m 58 and live in the northeast but was raised in the South in a deeply religious, patriarchal family. This book is helping with my healing from the brainwashing I encountered in my family and in organized religion.
The narrator was excellent.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-11-17
Powerful and thought provoking
This book opens the door to another possibility for what leadership means to include women’s voices. By shifting the narrative we allow for diversity and inclusion.
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- Myriam
- 2020-11-15
Nice
The book is ok. I think I had expectations of the stories more than the author explaining what we should be doing as women. Feels more like a self help book. Has great told bots of information but as a whole, I struggled to stay engaged.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-11-13
I'm Blown Away
This was refreshingly original, informed and inspiring. She offers brilliant strategies to create a better world.
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- AD
- 2021-02-23
Word choice
I noticed something the first time I listened to this book : the use of PTSD as a joking exaggeration of how scared she was giving a TED talk. I highly recommend changing that word, as it's very triggering to people who experienced actual trauma. It's great that we as a society are becoming more familiar with the term, but overusing it banalizes it for people who are actually suffering.