It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power, women rank lowest, and have fewest rights accorded them, whether of personal liberty or proprietary interest. — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit. — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman came to him distressed and said, "Doctor, come to my daughter, she is very ill. She has lost her reason, and she is all I have!" What would you think of the doctor who would not reply at… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share
I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty and revenge,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that a father may sell his daughter for a slave, that he may sacrifice her purity to a mob, and that he may murder her, and still be a good father and a holy man. It teaches that a man may have any number of wives; that he may sell them, give them away, or swap them… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share
That she does not crouch today where St Paul tried to bind her, she owes to the men who are grand and brave enough… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She is supposed… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power, women rank… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
I do not know of any divine commands. I do know of most important human ones. I do not know the needs of a… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think, and next… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and perpetuated by… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
