“The world belongs to those who read.”

“I own you. All things belong to the people who love them most.”

“Tertullian thunders at women in the manner of the God of the Old Testament who once threatened to make their hair fall out. But his tone and his words are altogether more menacing. Not only are women held responsible fot the Fall of Man, but it is they, not the Jews, not the Roman authorities--who are blamed for the suffering and death of Jesus, man's Redeemer. It is through their flesh that the devil comes into the world.”

“The most precious possession that ever comes to man in this world is a woman's heart.”

“...we will never look back until this work is finished and love of God and neighbor rules the world...”

“This [for opposition leaders to claim royal lineage], in a world ruled by a republic, was what revolution had come to mean.”

“Plato and Aristotle.....survived to become the twin pillars of philosophic and scientific thinking in the Western world, supporting the massive edifice of Christianity. Plato's Theory of Forms, with it's inherent contempt for the physical world, and Aristotle's biological dualism, in which females were seen as failed males, provided the intellectual apparatus for the centuries of misogyny that were to follow.”