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“Christian feminists can celebrate any sort of feminism that brings more justice and human flourishing to the world, no matter who is bringing it, since we recognize the hand of God in all that is good.”
― Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women

“And now for me, faith is less of a brick edifice of belief and doctrine and right answers than it is a wide-open sky ringed with pine trees black against a cold sunset, an altar, a welcome, bread and wine, an unfathomably ferocious love, and a profound sense of my belovedness.”
― Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women

“I want you to wrestle with the Bible. Do it. Wrestle until, Jacob-like, you walk with a limp ever after, and you receive the blessing of the Lord.”
― Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women

“It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale