"When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin."

Woman, Women, Mother, Church, Children

35

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin."

Exlpore more Woman quotes

"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

Woman, Women, Strength

"Every casting director I've met is a woman."

Cameron Diaz, American Actress

Woman,

"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

Woman, Women, Children, Destruction, Weapons

"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

Woman, Women, Country, Republican

"As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible."

Jim Bakker, American Celebrity

Woman, Women, Bible

"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."

Naomi Wolf, American Author

Woman, Women, Approval, Identity, Self

"My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception."

Jimmy Carter, American President

Woman, Women, Society, Decision, Military

"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."

Henry James, American Writer

Woman, Superiority, Man, Opinion

"Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile."

Emma Bonino, Italian Politician

Woman, Women, Reason

"One is not born a woman, but becomes one."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Woman,

Explore more quotes by Olympia Dukakis

"I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!"

Woman, Women, Work, Worth

"Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA."

Woman, Women, Fear, Daughters, Deep

"I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do."

Woman, Women, Being

"I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me."

Being, Despair

"I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her."

Woman, Women, Fear, Being, Country

"God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence."

Experience, God, Energy

"My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am."

Husband, Vengeance

"When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary."

Mother, Bed, Night, Prayer

"When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin."

Woman, Women, Mother, Church, Children

"The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain."

Values, Rest, Spirit, Trying