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“ I would have given the church my head, my heart, my hands. She would not have them. She did not know what to do with them. She told me to go back and crochet in my mother’s drawing room, or marry and look well at the head of my husband’s table.”
Florence Nightingale

“And it is worth reflecting that the Gospels record no woman as ever taking action against Him: His enemies were all men.”
Leon Morris, The Gospel According to St. Luke, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, Wm. B. Eerdman Publishing p.150 c.

“Jesus modeled humanity, not masculinity.”
Randy Frame, “Reclaiming Feminism,” Christianity Today, September 6, 1999; p. 102

“The Barna survey found the strongest supporters of women pastors to be the unchurched, 85 percent of whom agreed with the statement: ‘It is perfectly acceptable to you for a woman to be the pastor or head minister of a church’.”
The Christian Century, Oct 27, 1993

“Progress was made in the early church toward the elimination of the dichotomy between Jew and Greek, but Christians waited centuries to see the light on the slavery issue, and only in the twentieth century is the church even thinking of the barrier to be removed [between men and women] in Christ’s fellowship.”
Ruth Schmidt (emphasis added), HIS Magazine, May 1973 p. 13, “What Did Saint Paul Want?”

“For if ‘the head of the woman is man’ as ‘the head of Christ is God’, then man and woman must be equal as the Father and the Son are equal.”
John Stott, Decisive Issues Facing Christians Today, Fleming H. Revell, c. 1984, p. 271

“If a Gentile may exercise spiritual leadership in church as freely as a Jew, or a slave as freely as citizen, why not woman as freely as a man?”
F.F. Bruce, The Epistle to the Galatians: A Commentary on the Greek Text, (Grand Rapids, Mich: Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, c. 1982), p. 190.

“If, as evangelical Christians believe, Christian priesthood is a privilege in which all believers share, there can be no reason that a Christian woman should not exercise her priesthood on the same terms as a Christian man.”
W. Ward Gasque and Laurel Gasque, “F.F. Bruce: A Mind for What Matters: A Conversation With a Pioneer of Evangelical Biblical Scholarship,” Christianity Today, April 7 1989 pp. 24-25.

“The only people who never fail are those who never try.”
Ilka Chase

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Nothing anyone can do to us can injure us unless we submit to a wrong reaction. We can’t control other people, but we can control our responses.”
Amy Carmichael

“A Hindu husband regards himself as lord and master of his wife, who must ever dance attendance upon him.”
Gandhi

“Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other…As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.”
Sura 4, The Koran

“A bad man’s fate is to be reincarnated as a woman.”
Plato

“Women may be said to be inferior to men.”
Aristotle

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