If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.

You're dangerous."he says. Why?" Because you make me believe in the impossible." — Simone Elkeles (Rules of Attraction)