Cassandra Speaks
When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
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Narrated by:
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Xe Sands
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Elizabeth Lesser
About this listen
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.
©2020 Elizabeth Lesser (P)2020 HarperCollins PublishersWhat listeners say about Cassandra Speaks
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- Kristen Paes
- 08-11-2020
Life changing, profound and so important
An honest, balanced and poignant exploration of gender for all. A must listen for anyone wanting to be a better friend, parent, partner, leader and human.
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- Jodie Richards
- 20-01-2021
A road map and hope
I feel like I've been offered both a road map and hope for a feminine revolution.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-03-2021
Brilliant!!
Compelling! And essential reading for our time and those who want to save the world.
Thank you, Elizabeth Lessor.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-09-2021
LOVED it - a great gift for all our daughters
such a great twist on so many things I had never stopped to question. Im grateful to have had the chance to challenge my old thinking and reinvent myself.
I need to buy the book though to go through it slowly and make notes!
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- Anonymous User
- 18-07-2021
Absolutely Recommend
Absolutely recommend this book, will be adding to my personal top 12 reads of all time 😊👌
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- Anne M Looby
- 24-11-2020
Important and inspiring
I am so excited and inspired by this book. It is such an important voice in inspiring the change needed in the world. For everyone - male, female or anyone in between - we need to rewrite the stories to include, connect and heal. Thank you Elizabeth Lesser. I am so grateful.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-06-2023
A must read
I wasn’t sure I would like this book but after listening to Brene Brown interview it’s author I was intrigued. It had me from the start & I couldn’t stop listening, grabbing any opportunity I could to devour its contents. Everybody should read this book. Beautifully written & read, we can all learn something from it. What to read now after reading that?
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- Beaulah Pragg
- 16-11-2020
A moving exploration of women's voices
As an author struggling to find the confidence to write what is different, authentic and potentially controversial, listening to this book has opened my heart to the value of my voice and the need for it. Thank you.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-01-2021
Fabulous
I loved the narration, I've heard Lesser speak and had to remind myself it was not the author reading. Imagine if women had written half our history...
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-04-2021
Fabulous
Loved the book, well written, informative, a different view, very enlightening. Brought together some perspectives that I hadn't thought about before.
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