Religion Quote by Geraldine Brooks

“Finally, I want to come to the question of sex. If anything proves that religion is not just man-made but masculine-made, it is the…

— Christopher Hitchens

After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True,…

— Mark Steyn

“But the religious texts do describe—some have said, prescribe—the disfigurement of women who transgress sexually.23”

— Gaiutra Bahadur

Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do that if…

— Christopher Hitchens

“was religion an empowering force for women who otherwise had limited power in a society designed for and by men, or was it yer…

— Elif Shafak

“There still remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“Newer religions, among them Christianity, saw the world as a battlefield between good and evil. In such a world, sex itself became dichotomized and…

— Byrne R.S. Fone

“Muslim majority countries plagued by religious puritanism, by sexual sickness, by smothered invention.”

— Ian McEwan

“Religion is evolving to survive but is losing the battle in many regions, largely because of the Internet. Sexual information is far more available…

— Darrel Ray

Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt.…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“Until Islam’s articulate spokeswomen such as Rana Kabbani target their misguided coreligionists with the fervor they expend on outside critics, the grave mistake of…

— Geraldine Brooks