Carol P. Christ Quotes

It’s important to say that none of the world’s great religions has been good for women. Not a single one of them.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

All religions have always hated females.

I think feminism is about the spirit.