Rosemary Radford Ruether quotes

“The critical principle of feminist theology is the promotion of the full humanity of women. Whatever denies, diminishes, or distorts the full humanity of women is, therefore, appraised as not redemptive.”
-- Rosemary Radford Ruether

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“God is not a 'being' removed from creation, ruling it from outside in the manner of a patriarchal ruler; God is the source of being that underlies creation and grounds its nature and future potential for continual transformative renewal in biophilic mutuality.”
-- Rosemary Radford Ruether

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“The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature.”
-- Rosemary Radford Ruether

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“Women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose fundamental model of relationships continues to be one of domination. They must unite the demands of the women's movement with those of the ecological movement to envision a radical reshaping of the basic socioeconomic relations and the underlying values of this [modern industrial] society.”
-- Rosemary Radford Ruether

Source : Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon (2006). “Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women in North American Catholicism”, p.1111, Indiana University Press

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“In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.”
-- Rosemary Radford Ruether

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“We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these cumulative patterns of destruction means we have to both learn new patterns and put them into practice on a global scale within the next generation.”
-- Rosemary Radford Ruether

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“The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.”
-- Rosemary Radford Ruether

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“An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of infallibility itself. . . . A storm of dissent, and even ridicule, directed at infallibility itself would ensue from such a declaration.”
-- Rosemary Radford Ruether

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“In his latest book Marc Ellis asks the defining question for Jewish life today: 'Can injustice, represented by Jewish domination of Jerusalem, be at the heart of the covenant?' Ellis's answer is that the covenant of Israel with God has been shattered by the creation of a state at the expense of Palestinian life in the land. It can only be renewed by a new ethic and practice of justice that reconcile these two people, who have become irrevocably linked together in the land, either for good or for ill.”
-- Rosemary Radford Ruether

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“Great necessities call out great virtues.”

Source : Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780

“Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.”

“Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.”

Source : "The Man Who Revitalized 'Doctor Who' And 'Sherlock'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

“The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?”

“I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.”

“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.”

“The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.”

“Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.”

“Corporation 2020 is an indispensable contribution to the global transformation of finance and corporations as humanity re-integrates centuries of knowledge and continues its inevitable transition from the first Industrial Era... Pavan Sukhdev is a powerful standard-bearer leading us to the cleaner, knowledge-rich Green Economy globally, and this book provides a benchmark and guide to this better future for humanity.”