Atheism Quote by Helen H. Gardener

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and…

— Sonia Johnson

It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.

— Pope Francis

“It is so tremendously important that the women of the Church stand strong and immovable for that which is correct and proper under the…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of history show…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and perpetuated by…

— Helen H. Gardener

Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .

— Annie Laurie Gaylor

The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile…

— Dorothy Richardson

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and…

— Tony Campolo

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

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women don't need to have our own little corner of the church where we can feel precious or, alternatively, cranky. In every essential thing,…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green