'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.
Death is a fearful thing.
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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