Merlin Stone, from The Politics of Women's Spirituality, ed. by
Charlene Spretnak (Anchor/Doubleday) 1982,., pg 551:
"Entering into a discussion about whether or not ancient Goddess worship
existed, as the author of 'Myths and Matriarchies' (I refer to it as M&M)
suggests, is much like inviting us into a discussion of whether or not
World War II actually occurred. As long as the author of M&M chooses
to blind herself to the evidence of seven thousand
years of artifacts and the three thousand years
of historical (i.e., written) material, as discovered, deciphered, and
described by archeologists and historians (those listed in the ten
pages of bibliography of When God Was a Woman)
-- how can her statements even be considered seriously?"