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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."
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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."
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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."
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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."
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"Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about."
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"I hate women because they always know where things are."
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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
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"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
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"Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons."
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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."
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Explore more quotes by Carol P. Christ

"The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters."
Man

"Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants."
Woman

"Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers."
Religion

"The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before."
Act

"The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior."
Values

"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."
Religion

"After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess."
Woman

"Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles."
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"The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power."
Power

"If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?"
God
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