characteristics of Hera, Demeter, and Persephone. Each chapter de-
scribes the archetypal patterns one goddess personifies, and each
shows how a goddess influences the lives of women in whom she
lives, as well as how she affects others who are related to such wo-
men as spouses, parents, friends, lovers, or children.
Every woman who has ever felt an urge to marry, or have a child,
or felt she was waiting for something to happen to change her
life—which must include just about every woman—will find herself
akin to one of the vulnerable goddesses at some point in her life.
Goddesses in Everywoman