Ancient Quote by Wendy Doniger Download Open image “Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda,” — Wendy Doniger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Education Forbidden Sacred Sacred texts Study Vedas
[On the New Testament:] I ... must enter my protest against the false translation of some passages by the men who did that work, and against the perverted interpretation by the men who undertook to write commentaries thereon. I am inclined to think, when we [women] are admitted to the honor of studying Greek and Hebrew, we shall produce some… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share
Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology or canon… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey was never… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I've read the Bible, but I felt like a lot of the Bible was oppressive towards women. Then I read the Quran, and I… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole. — Elinor Gadon Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“One UniVerse for the Living While palaces attest to the power of men, And monuments mark their wars, Little remains of the women who've… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people? — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
“As the Hindu gods are ‘immortal’ only in a very particular sense – for they are born, and they die – they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals only in a few trivial details (gods do not sweat or blink, for example) and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share
The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think…Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
“whether or not people get the gods that they deserve, they tend to get the gods (and demons) that their animals deserve—” — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
“The future Buddha was once born as a rabbit, who vowed that he would give his own flesh to any beggar who came to him, in order to protect the beggar from having to break the moral law by taking animal life. To test him, Indra, the Hindu king of the gods, took the form of a Brahmin and came… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share
Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release,… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
“In 1864 a geologist named that supercontinent Lemuria, because he used the theory to account for the fact that living lemurs were found, in… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere. — Confucius Copy Share
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears. I'd seen many things in his eyes in the time that I'd known him: lust, amusement, sympathy, mockery, caution, fury. But I had never seen this. Hope. Jericho Barrons had hope, and I was the reason… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside me operating the levers of a life-size Oliver-shaped shell. A shell on which a decrepit picture show replays the same handful of images. Every night I come to the same place and wait till the… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves. Such was my elation that I ran inside, put on our ancient cracked record of Aretha Franklin singing Respect and danced all by myself for half an hour in our living room, without inhibition, almost… — Helen Garner Copy Share
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your… — Laozi Copy Share
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its poetry can be beautiful; it can make us shiver with the recognition of things we have always suspected or felt. It can draw us back to times when the earth was new to man, and… — Anne Rice Copy Share
![“Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey was never supposed to have attained the age of reason and experience. Such, at least, was the stern and haughty spirit of the ancient law . . .” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b7f/edward-gibbon-710_age_women-in-ancient-rome-were-condemned-to_2414906.jpg)
