“ When a man of sense comes to marry, it is a companion whom he wants, and not an artist. It is not merely a creature who can paint, and play, and sing, and draw, and dress, and dance; it is a being who… Karen Swallow Prior
“ Jesus treats patriarchy the way he treats much else of the law and custom of his time: ambiguously, suggestively, and sometimes subversively, but never immediately revolutionarily outside the central… John G. Stackhouse Jr.
“ When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except in modern society in our day, the church avoided scandal by going along with it -… John G. Stackhouse Jr.
“ We view men’s gifts as vital to the church. In contrast, we caution women to exercise their gifts discreetly to avoid causing problems or trespassing some invisible line — which changes location from… Carolyn Custis James
“ The noble calling to rule and subdue the earth in God’s name was perverted, as male and female tried to rule and subdue each other. Carolyn Custis James
“ How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance in view of the deeper tragedies in which she must play her part… Elizabeth Cady Stanton
