The next item to be discussed is a set of cassette tapes by Marion Woodman. These are recordings of her Fay lectures delivered in 1994, entitled The Stillness Shall Be the Dancing. Unlike Douglas, Woodman does not present herself as a feminist. She does, however, view herself as a champion of the feminine archetypal principle. Woodman is hard-hitting, passionate, and at times hyperbolic. She uses shock tactics and seems unafraid of every cultural force that might stand in the way of the return of the feminine, as she understands it. Her style is rhetorical, mythopoetic and challenging. A gifted orator, she speaks to the emotional lives and complexities of her audience, whom she seems to hold in the palm of her hand.

Woodman speaks as a wise woman, as one who knows and who has experienced the psychic underworld. Although her style is prophetic, there is not a hint of pretension or inflation in her delivery. Her wisdom has been gained through suffering. She has suffered a great deal and the result is that she has emerged with enormous insight