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“On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher faculties either of mind or body. This circumstance vanishes and becomes absolutely insignificant, on the religious theory: The one sex has an equal task to perform as the other: Their powers of reason and resolution ought also to have been equal, and both of them infinitely greater than at present.”

Source: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)

“I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be kind to them in a kind of subordinate way. Very patronizing, very colonial. But if you start looking at the fabric of society, even religious systems, they would fall apart if it wasn't for the embedded ability of the women who are involved.”

Ifs Thinking Way Kind Humanity Fall Found Women Religious Loss Ability Involved Be Kind Fabric Domination Falling Apart Subordinates Embedded Patronizing

Author:William P. Young

“It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.”

Men Soul God Women Religious Activity Highest Claims Responsible Supreme

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.”

May Spirit Religion Given Difficult Women Religious Forget Adversity Prosperity Times Of Adversity

Book:Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890

Source: Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890

“Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.”

Ifs Believe Children Religion Women Religious Don't Believe Valuable Educated Versus Believe You Can I Don't Believe You Religious Education

Author:Susan Jacoby

“I always found myself more drawn to each religious milieu than I would have anticipated, but in time, a ghoulish threat of being absorbed in alien territory always sent me retreating to the blander and safer ground of home.”

Home Religion Found Women Religious Threat Aliens Territory Milieu

Book:Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred

Source: Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred

“She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.”

Trying Religion Women Religious Hangover

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“[There is a] depth and urgency of the search of Jewish and Christian women for connection to the Divine, which found expression in more than 1000 years of feminist Bible criticism and religious re-visioning.”

Years Christian Religion Found Women Religious Divine Expression Criticism Connections Depth Feminist Urgency Christian Women

Book:The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy

Source: The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy

“But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.”

Men Wells Whole Speak Sex Women Religious Heard Youth Mines Taught Touched Thank God Offense Uncles Lectures Courtship Giddy

Book:The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations

Source: The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations

“Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.”

Women Religious Special Pure Custodians

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers