Rachel

“Complementarianism, for those unfamiliar with the term, is a patriarchal system born in white evangelicalism that uses the Bible to justify privileging male authority.”
― Beth Allison Barr, Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry

“Women are valued in patriarchal societies for how they relate to and support men. They are typically not valued apart from their connection to men.

Doesn't that sound like the pastor's wife role?”
― Beth Allison Barr, Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry

“When you start to exercise your voice and agency, those who would prefer you to stay silent and powerless might try to use your past trauma against you by suggesting you still have a lot of healing to do, are clouded by bitterness, are emotionally unhealthy, and so forth. They want you to doubt yourself and stand down. Knowing that, doing the opposite would then be to believe in yourself and stand up. Your past might actually be the reason you see so clearly now, insist on fairness, and get rightly upset over injustice.”
― Wade Mullen, Something's Not Right: Decoding the Hidden Tactics of Abuse--and Freeing Yourself from Its Power

“Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged.”
― Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth