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title: "7 Women-and-religion Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/as-he-defended-the-book-one-evening-in-the-early-1980s-at-the/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-kung/if-you-cannot-see-that-divinity-includes-male-and-female/)

[Hans Küng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-kung/)

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> [“I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we find within the representations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loriliai-biernacki/i-would-suggest-that-especially-in-the-differential-of-images-that/)

[Loriliai Biernacki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loriliai-biernacki/)

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> [“The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/the-noble-old-synagogue-had-been-profaned-and-turned-into-a-stable-by/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“So what is transgressive in the practice of this secret Tantra is the gesture not to elide the difference that women present.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loriliai-biernacki/so-what-is-transgressive-in-the-practice-of-this-secret-tantra-is-the/)

[Loriliai Biernacki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loriliai-biernacki/)

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> [“…if divinity, which is the goddess, is intrinsic to her being, something she caries around with her all the time, something she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loriliai-biernacki/if-divinity-which-is-the-goddess-is-intrinsic-to-her-being-something/)

[Loriliai Biernacki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loriliai-biernacki/)

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> [“women are Gods, women are the life-breath”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loriliai-biernacki/women-are-gods-women-are-the-life-breath/)

[Loriliai Biernacki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loriliai-biernacki/)

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