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“We need to be careful not to read the challenges of our own hearts, our personal assumptions, and our cultural assumptions about gender into…

— Winston T. Smith

“I believe that most, if not all, of the restrictions on women in society have no basis in Scripture, and that those maintained in…

— Roger Nicole

“One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to have allowed the male sex to…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“sometimes paraphrase our own Scriptures. For example, the verse above is modeled on Galatians 3:28, which says, “There is no longer Jew or Greek,…

— Kristen Stieffel

Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political,…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

My book in a nutshell is about the deleterious effects of patriarchy down through the ages for women and for men and how the…

— Carolyn Custis James

“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 Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.

— Letty M. Russell

“The source of life (female) is redefined and now hated as the enemy of male life. What was once woman’s power is now to…

— Monica Sjöö

“None of us exists in this world apart from being one gender or another, and in fact our existence as male and female is…

— Ruth Haley Barton

“In the task God planned for mankind of tending and keeping, serving and protecting God’s creation, one gender wasn’t adequate.”

— Wendy Alsup

“Now I see the Bible as it was written: the inspired word of God, but also a historical document preserving the ancient hegemony of…

— Willie Parker