Noelle has a great series highlighting historical women from around the world for Women’s History Month at hedgeblog. mjh
From Hypatia of Alexandria:
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
From Sojourner Truth:
Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.