Religion Quote by Michelle A. Gonzalez

“There are two “camps” which interpret Sor Juana's final years: the Catholic interpretation sees her renunciation as a turn to spirituality and devotion, while…

— Michelle A. Gonzalez

“That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found…

— George Eliot

“The concept of spirituality is represented with feminine characteristics to the point that Eastern mystics often refer to God as a mother, the dominance…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“To my thinking, a woman’s religion ought not to lessen her devotion to her earthly lord.  She should have enough to purify and etherealise…

— Anne Brontë

“One thing that became clear to me is that images of a divine mother are surprisingly important in the psychological wholeness of women, especially…

— Sue Monk Kidd

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

“Innocent and virtuous, she represented the exact type of female he avoided... God, she was a taking thing, even for an avaricious reformer.”

— Karen Hawkins

“A female's body should be looked at and respected as something divine. At least, that was the original thought, but time marches on, and…

— Lionel Suggs

When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states,…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

“I suggest that the representation of women deserves a much higher consideration in our religious discourse. When words are presented as if they come…

— Carol Lynn Pearson

“The necessary condition for the lively correspondence between the nuns and their spiritual leaders was the recognition of a sphere in which men and…

— Sigrid Undset

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing…

— John Chrysostom