Assumption Quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs people with…

— Taslima Nasrin

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

— Nawal El Saadawi

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

We need more balance in the world - more balance of the feminine and the masculine.

— Gretchen Bleiler

Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.

— Bruce Feiler

I believe that beyond the arena of art, the world would be a much better place if centered around a feminine perspective. The world…

— Mark Ryden

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is…

— Mary Kay Ash

If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies,…

— Kang Youwei

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important…

— Pope Francis

A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according to her…

— Rajneesh

Religion is an easy target for accusations of repression and misogyny, but achievement in the sacred and therefore socio-political sphere was often an option…

— Bettany Hughes