21st century Quote by Maureen Dowd

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

— Peter Mullan

People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the…

— Gloria Steinem

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

— Shirley Williams

Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.

— Bruce Feiler

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

— Alaa Alghamdi

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

“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

“As Sister Joan Chittister, a direct descendant of Hildegard in the Benedictine tradition, says, the issue today is not “radical feminism,” which the Vatican…

— Matthew Fox

“When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situation in which…

— Arundhati Roy

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

— Andrew Greeley

The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous.…

— Betty Friedan

“In either culture, women somehow managed to get the wrong end of the stick. Women bear the brunt of fending off social disorder in…

— Geraldine Brooks