Female Clergy Quotes

Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.

The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding.

Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.

Women participate equally with men in the priesthood of all believers

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

[On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked.

As a Catholic, I am proud of the social mission of the church and its concerns for the poor and dispossessed, but I still personally would support women priests.

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

The question of the admission of women is one that has come up often over the past 25 years and is sure to be reopened in the future …. One cannot wholly escape the rather ungenerous suspicion that many a young woman enters divinity school with the unsuspected hope that she may become a minister's wife. Whether or not women are going to be welcome and effective as parish ministers is not a problem which we can decide. That decision will have to be made by trial and error in the churches. I have no convictions and no wisdom on this matter.