MotherGod was written at a time when I was questioning my religious beliefs but also recognising the vast spiritual reasons to keep God close at hand.

At this time I was reading a lot of empowerment and healing books, one of which was called Interiors, by Ilyanta Vantra. In it she introduced MotherGod to me. It was a very emotional experience reading the book. My interpretation was that as a woman the patriarchal ideology that has been thrust on western societies has strangled womens' belief in self love.

Many African communities have held MotherGod where she belongs, next to God the Father, as we are all rightly God's children, but Western Christian beliefs demote her to the Virgin Mary. As a woman I had nothing in common with the Virgin Mary as she only held me up as being less virtuous than I felt myself to be. On learning of MotherGod I felt at once immersed in the empowerment of women. The love of a father, although it can be gentle, is more disciplined and more structured than the love of a mother, which is warm and compassionate, a fertile love in which you can grow.