p. 98-99 "A system that rewards humility and placing others first - with its promise of eternal reward for enduring untenable conditions on earth - invited the oppressed to participate in her own oppression. Add to that the generations of females learning to exhibit qualities that are held up as Christian virtues - such as compassion and empathy - and women are immediately in danger of being taken advantage of. If the literal crux of traditional Christianity holds up as its ideal God the Father's willingness to sacrifice his only Son, how can a woman, already sacrificing her human rights, complain? The traditional notion that suffering is supposed to bring one closer to God predisposed the nineteenth-century woman to participate in her own abuse. ... So you raise up a few generations of young girls, telling them that they should step to the back of the bus, ingrain that in their psyche, preach it to them from the pulpit, hold up as ideal examples women doing precisely that, and in a few years, you can step back; you need say no more. Your work is done, because you have carefully created a herd of women who know and even begrudgingly accept that their place is secondary, just outside the limelight, clapping for and cheering on the important people who were never taught to put others first."
p. 70 "As Bennett writes: "It is best not to be too literal in interpreting myths; but it cannot be maintained that woman is inferior even if she was created after man without admitting that man is inferior to the creeping things because he was created after them.""
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