The Goddess is alive and well within the femiine community of the Women's Spirituality Movement, a movement that was started by Hungarian born Zsuzsanna Budapest.

Z Budapest is a revolutionary and recognized as being the Founding Mother of the Women's Spirituality Movement. She is a hereditary witch, psychic and author of several acclaimed books including the classic The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries (The Feminist Book of Light and Shadows). She can also be credited with inspiring a revolution in the Goddess Movement, waking many women up to their own divine spark of divinity within, which can lead to making a positive difference in our world, and thus changing the course of history (Herstory).

Z Budapest's inspiration was Feminism and the lack of female centered spirituality at the time. When becoming a feminist was like you had to rebuild an entire culture and finally give women a place in it. A Spiritual Religion is important to women. Women had started all kinds of new things in the '70's; like communal living, sharing food expenses, self-defense, car repairs, women's health care, anti-rape squads, Take Back the Night marches (which Z started). Woen's religion was just one of the many seeds of this generation.

Women's spirituality is Goddess-centered. That is a revolutionary idea because all the reigning religions are male-God-centered. And the values taught in those religions are jealousy, possessiveness, exclusivity, obedience, guilt, punishment, fear. They are mostly fear-based religions. When you find a male God you find fear. They're sort of synonymous. In turning it around and saying all children come from the Goddess, then we're all equal, there's no reason for fear, there's no punishment, there's no judgment, there's no possessiveness or exclusivity. It's inclusive in that all come from the Goddess, and its female values, which is the children are all equal.