Women And Religion Quotes
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God is for men, and religion for women (Women And Religion Quotes)
Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao’s China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup (Women And Religion Quotes)
The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them. (Women And Religion Quotes)
How women view religion’s role in society is shaped more by their own country’s culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women. (Women And Religion Quotes)
When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it (Women And Religion Quotes)
Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women (Women And Religion Quotes)
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It’s not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates (Women And Religion Quotes)
One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve (Women And Religion Quotes)
When I was 13, I told my parents I didn’t believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women’s freedoms (Women And Religion Quotes)
And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that? (Women And Religion Quotes)
There isn’t a religion on Earth that isn’t damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women (Women And Religion Quotes)
Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was (Women And Religion Quotes)
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women? (Women And Religion Quotes)
How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history? (Women And Religion Quotes)
It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women (Women And Religion Quotes)
Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere (Women And Religion Quotes)
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression (Women And Religion Quotes)
At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil (Women And Religion Quotes)
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe (Women And Religion Quotes)
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love (Women And Religion Quotes)
No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women (Women And Religion Quotes)
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960’s (Women And Religion Quotes)