Fall Quote by Saint Augustine

Through a woman [Eve] a curse fell upon the earth; through a woman [Mary] as well there returned to the earth a blessing.

— Peter Damian

Eve was blamed for the fall of man, and in return all women to come were to inheret her karmic responsibility for the so-called…

— Frederick Lenz

“As for those who state that it is thanks to a woman, the lady Eve, that man was expelled from paradise, my answer to…

— Christine de Pizan

“Mary, having a man betrothed [to her], and being nevertheless a virgin, by yielding obedience, become the cause of salvation, both to herself and…

— The Church Fathers

“Eve's Fall symbolizes women's invention of agriculture, which came to be seen as the Original Sin that caused the loss of Paradise. The revolutionary…

— Robert S. McElvaine

“just as the former was led astray by the word of an angel, so that she fled from God when she had transgressed His…

— The Church Fathers

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

— Julia Ward Howe

“Probably the prevailing opinion, that woman was created for man, may have taken its rise from Moses's poetical story; yet, as very few it…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell;…

— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

“In accordance with this design, Mary the Virgin is found obedient, saying, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to…

— The Church Fathers

“The book of Genesis shows that God created humanity and gave him life. The unfolding drama is that the male, Adam, and thus, by…

— Akwasi O. Ofori

God took Eve from the side of Adam, not from his foot to be his menial or slave or servant, not from his head…

— Matthew Henry