Sandra Marie Schneiders quotes
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“Feminism is not a patch; it is a whole new pattern which can only be realized by weaving a new garment, seamless from top to bottom and multicolored from the beginning.”
-- Sandra Marie SchneidersSource : Sandra Marie Schneiders (2004). “Beyond Patching: Faith and Feminism in the Catholic Church”, p.4, Paulist Press
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“metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not really a rock or a mother eagle, it is easy enough to imagine that God is really a king or a father.”
-- Sandra Marie SchneidersSource : Sandra Marie Schneiders (1986). “Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women”, p.27, Paulist Press
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“No matter how entrenched in the imagination of the average Christian the image of a male God might be, theological tradition has never assigned sex to God.”
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“the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women.”
-- Sandra Marie SchneidersSource : Sandra Marie Schneiders (1986). “Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women”, p.5, Paulist Press
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“Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself.”
Source : "Suvorof". Book by W. Lyon Blease, 1926.
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Source : "Alexander Wang: Fashion's Boy Wonder" by Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2011.
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Source : Vera John-Steiner (1997). “Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking”, p.210, Oxford University Press
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