The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
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Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.
Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women.
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.
A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Women and men are lost in the same labyrinth .. on different floors.
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
heavily tattooed women can be said to control and subvert the ever-present 'male gaze' by forcing men (and women) to look at their bodies in a manner that exerts control.
And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. --Doom with a View
Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.
Women are delicate creatures at the best of times moved by desires unknown to the men who place trust in them.
He'd been told that women were sensitive about such things, as if a scar could somehow ruin their beauty, but scars were just stories told in flesh...
Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer.
So was it cultural imperialism for Westerners to criticize foot-binding and female infanticide? Perhaps. But it was also the right thing to do. If we believe firmly in certain values, such as the equa...
What they prefer to that is to find someone to have power over; someone to own and to bully, to smash and to waste. She wondered if she would ever be in love.
... The women's song was always the same, as monotonous as the beating of the waves against the beach: loss, loss. The conch offered them no enchantment. When they put their ear to it, all they heard...
If a women ask for respect instead of earning it then they are weak.
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
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