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As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.
— Sheryl Sandberg
They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.
— Judith Durham
The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
— Pope Benedict XVI
...Men and women were created to be jointly the guarantee of the future of the humanity not only a physical guarantee, but also a moral one.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Both sexes are equal. Both bear the image of God and are equal in their standing and in their spiritual gifts for service.
— Kent Hughes
Men, as fathers you have such power! You will have this terrible power till you die, like it or not — in your attitude toward authority, in your attitude toward women, in your regard for God and the Church. What terrifying responsibilities! This is truly the power of life and death.
— Kent Hughes
I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call.
— Marianne Williamson
I've been blessed with so many wonderful women friends throughout my life.
— Deborah Raney
A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The story of the Syro-Phoenician makes women's contribution to one of the most crucial traditions in early Christian beginnings historically available. Through such an analysis, the Syro-Phoenician can become visible again as one of the apostolic foremothers of Gentile Christians. By moving her into the center of the debate about the mission to the Gentiles, the historical centrality of Paul in this debate becomes relativized.
— Walter Brueggemann
The theological denigration of women was a major revision of the assumptions that had informed the Christian movement from the gospels forward. Jesus himself modeled an egalitarian respect toward women: In Christ, 'there is neither male nor female.
— James Carroll
What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing about him, and a great many male undergraduates turn pale and faint at the thought of him-but I, eccentric individual that I am, do want to know about Aristotle, and I submit that there is nothing in my shape or bodily functions which need prevent my knowing about him.
— Dorothy Sayers