Empowering Quote by Elif Shafak

“Faith, whichever way Selma understood it, infused her with a sense of surrender that could have been a cause of weakness had it not…

— Elif Shafak

“Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and…

— Frank Herbert

“Religion- made by men to rule women, children and idiots!”

— Vardan Hambardzumyan

“Religion is a personal matter between God and man, and that force plays no role in it”

— Mirza Masroor Ahmad

“When men and women get their hands on religion, one of the first things they often do is turn it into an instrument for…

— Eugene H. Peterson

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

“To my thinking, a woman’s religion ought not to lessen her devotion to her earthly lord.  She should have enough to purify and etherealise…

— Anne Brontë

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

— Taslima Nasrin

“It is difficult to exaggerate the adverse influence of the precepts and practices of religion upon the status and happiness of woman. Owing to…

— Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.

— Julia Ward Howe

“Organized religion: where men write the rules, women follow them, and the children pay the price.”

— Brad Deep

Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken…

— C. A. Bartol