Becoming Quote by Mitch Horowitz

Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the…

— Mitch Horowitz

Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men.

— Naomi Ragen

Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this…

— Nellie L. McClung

“... the effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a…

— Cynthia Eller

Women have been systematically pushed out of spirituality by men.

— Frederick Lenz

“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

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in…

— Dan Brown

Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs people with…

— Taslima Nasrin

Buttressed by an acceptance of female wisdom in the sacred sphere from the beginnings of organised religion 12,000 years ago to late antiquity and…

— Bettany Hughes

As women, however, we need to look very closely at these philosophies and ask ourselves the hard-headed, critial question, What's in it for me?…

— Starhawk

There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.

— Mason Cooley