Atheism Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

— Madame de Stael

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their…

— Tertullian

“Christian men have a long history of treating women as chattel”

— Al Stefanelli

“For Cumming the Christian and feminine imperative of service far outweighed superficial notions of female delicacy. Employing one dimension of feminine ideology to dismiss…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes…

— Havelock Ellis

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

— Lucretia Mott

“With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Since our society continues to be primarily a "Christian" culture masses of people continue to believe that god has ordained that women be subordinate…

— Bell Hooks

“It appears that when women and men experienced God in affective worship, they were enabled to act with courage and passionate discipline. This was…

— Alan Kreider

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy…

— Harper Lee

The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;…

— Bible

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to…

— Marguerite Yourcenar