"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and th…"

"Women are the backbone of the church."

"For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Chu…"

"The subjection of women in Western lands is wholly due to Christianity. Among the Teutons women were honoured, and he…"

"Although religion restricted women’s roles in some ways, it expanded them in others. Basing their arguments on religi…"

"As early as the sixth century a council at Macon (585) fifty-nine bishops taking part, devoted its time to a discussi…"

"For a long period after the reformation, English women were not permitted to read the Bible, a statute of the Eighth …"

"Her children, as to-day in Christian England and America, are not under her control; she is to bear children but not …"

"The State, agent and slave of the Church, has so long united with it in suppression of woman’s intelligence, has so l…"

"Women are indebted today for their emancipation from a position of hopeless degradation, not to their religion nor to…"