"Although religion restricted women’s roles in some ways, it expanded them in others. Basing their arguments on religious values, women fought for an enlarged role in society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Women who broke accepted rules about their roles often did so because they believed God wanted them to. "What is impossible for woman when the love of Jesus fills her soul?" asked a Methodist woman in 1859. The power of spiritual experiences emboldened women to seek social as well as religious emancipation."
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Braude, Ann (2007). Sisters and Saints: Women and American Religion. Oxford University Press. p. 2-3.
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