Quote by Geraldine Brooks

“I had seen other women embark on spiritual journeys only to become frightened and turn back. Become frightened of what, I needed to ask.…

— Christina Crawford

“There has been something missing from this experience of Catholicism that I've plunged into to such a surprising depth. It's the women.”

— Kaya Oakes

“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

“This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented by the world's religions, by psychoanalysis,…

— Sheila Jeffreys

“Christian women also, at one time, covered their heads—not just nuns but all women when they entered churches, until quite recently.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

“With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“First the fact that the only items on open display seem to be tampons, breast pumps, and douches, making one feel as a female…

— Belle de Jour

“Modern women had their own self-made guilt to make them miserable, but the sixteenth-century people had diseases, their fear of the unknown, their ignorance…

— Jude Deveraux

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

It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“But although it is the case that anyone who contends that in the Catholic medieval civilization of Europe woman was on the whole reckoned…

— Sigrid Undset

“The Church’s war against women occurred not under Christ—who by all accounts held women as equals to men—but through the writings of St Irenaeus…

— Matthew Reilly