il femminino sacro per Tori

I do believe thet we all are, fundamentally, divided creatures. Emotions split from intellect, spirit from flesh and far too often sexuality is disconnetted from what we feel, and are, as total human beings. But how, for example, can anyone have an understanding of the virgin if they don't also have an understanding of the prostitute, the saint and the sinner in one body? Attempting to reconcile these opposing forces in my own nature is my goal and what I write about in songs like Precious Things, and all the songs in Little Earthquakes..I do have a real commitment to the female, the feminine, the goddess side of my own nature. I am Mary, the mother of God and the Mary Magdalene figure now.

(Hot Press, Ireland, 1992)

...The Christian religion, you know, it's dickless, it has no penis, because when a penis didn't create Jesus, thet really takes a lot away from you guys. I think whatever people's spiritual beliefs are, the whole sexuality/spirituality issue, that is my passion. Marrying the two Marys, the Magdalene and the Mother. The Mother Mary's sexuality was stripped from her in the myth, and Mary Magdalene's wisdom and spirituality were stripped from her, and so we're divided into these two Marys in the Western Christian world. And it has really been my passion to unite the two Marys, inside my own mind, inside my own heart, inside my own pussy.

(Record Collector- 1999)