Rail as they will against 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism…The momma bird builds the nest. So it was, so it ever shall be. Ronald Reagan is not responsible for this; God is.
Washington Times, November 18, 1983.
A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.
The Church and the Second Sex, New Autobiographical Preface, (1975)
The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people’s reproductive behaviour, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
Sex and Destiny, (1984)
Women becoming Christlike leaders in the 1970s and 80s challenged the church's repression of sexuality. The old options for women of being either virgins or whores are at odds with clergywomen as leaders and preachers. Into which category does the new preacher fall?
Sexual Shame: An Urgent Call to Healing, (2000)
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