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“When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity.”
― The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
― The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing Christians that oppression is godly. Their God ordained some people, simply because of their sex or skin color (or both), as belonging under the power of other people.”
― The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
― The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
“There is an eternity behind and an eternity before, Onion. That little speck at the center, however long, is life. And that is but comparatively a minute,” he said. “I has done what the Lord has asked me to do in the little time I had. That was my purpose. To hive the colored.”
― The Good Lord Bird
― The Good Lord Bird
“Being a Negro means showing your best face to the white man every day. You know his wants, his needs, and watch him proper. But he don’t know your wants. He don’t know your needs or feelings or what’s inside you, for you ain’t equal to him in no measure. You just a nigger to him. A thing: like a dog or a shovel or a horse. Your needs and wants got no track, whether you is a girl or a boy, a woman or a man, or shy, or fat, or don’t eat biscuits, or can’t suffer the change of weather easily. What difference do it make? None to him, for you is living on the bottom rail.”
― The Good Lord Bird
― The Good Lord Bird
“It is in Genesis 3:16 (God speaking to the woman) where we first see hierarchy in human relationships. . . . Hierarchy was not God’s will for the first pair, but it was imposed when they chose to disregard his command and eat the forbidden fruit. . . . Adam would now be subject to his source (the ground), even as Eve was now subject to her source (Adam). This was the moment of the birth of patriarchy. As a result of their sin, the man was now the master over the woman, and the ground was now master over the man, contrary to God’s original intention in creation.34 Patriarchy wasn’t what God wanted; patriarchy was a result of human sin.”
― The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
― The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
Mrs Jess’s 2025 Year in Books
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