Atheism Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

— Susan B. Anthony

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

— Madame de Stael

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

— Carol P. Christ

Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“In a world dominated by violent and passive-aggressive men, and by male institutions dispensing violence, it is extraordinary to note how often women are…

— Adrienne Rich

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy…

— Harper Lee

The months of political campaigning have given us vivid reminders that women's rights are under constant assault all over the globe. Tragically even the…

— Carolyn Custis James

Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders…

— Camille Paglia

It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work,…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man, ever the…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an…

— Gloria Steinem

We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.

— Nina Easton