Is God Female?

I hate to admit it, but my thinking on this subject began with a debate between Yentl and another person in the movie Yentl. The two characters were discussing 'the rib of Adam' when Yentl said that in Hebrew the word for rib could be interpreted as 'part'. In other words, a translation of Genesis could be that God took a 'part' from Adam to make woman.

Given this idea coupled with 'the two shall become one flesh', I sorta developed my own idea (I am sure someone has written about this somewhere) that perhaps what God did when creating us in his likeness was that he separated his masculine and feminine to create male and female. Perhaps his intent was that when we are together as male and female in a relationship, we can only experience the real nature of God? Perhaps there is some deep spiritual truth that creation can only be accomplished through the union of the masculine and the feminine?

This brings up another interesting point. Although we address God as He, perhaps God is also She in traits. It seems to me that God has exhibited his masculine nature in the Old Testament and His feminine nature in the New?

Some thoughts for interesting discussion and debate......