Ephesians 5:22-24

"Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord… Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything." This underscores submission within marriage.

1 Corinthians 14:34-35:

"Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church." Highlighting women's silence in religious settings.

Saint Augustine:

"I fail to see what use woman can be if not for the purpose of bearing children."

Thomas Aquinas:

"Women are defective males."

John Knox:

"A discourse most dreadful against the monstrous regiment of women."

John Chrysostom:

"Of all wild animals, there is none more harmful than the hare-brained woman."

Martin Luther:

"If a woman becomes a teacher, she will be a devil in disguise."

John Calvin:

"It is a detestable crime to obey God rather than men when men command us to do something which is not in accordance with the divine will."

Pope Pius XI:

"Women should not be counted among those who are capable of performing public functions."

1 Timothy 2:11-12: "A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet." This emphasizes women's roles in submission and silence.

Ephesians 5:22-24: "Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord… Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything." This underscores submission within marriage.

1 Corinthians 14:34-35: "Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church." Highlighting women's silence in religious settings.

Titus 2:3-5: "Teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live… Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands." Emphasizes traditional roles for women.

Proverbs 31:10-12: "A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies… Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value." Suggests a woman's primary role as a supportive partner to her husband.

1 Peter 3:6 – “as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him her master.”

Genesis 3:16 – “your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you”

Numbers 5:11-31 (the Sotah ritual) – a ritual to test wives suspected of adultery, which if guilty causes them to suffer.

Exodus 20:17 – coveting neighbor’s wife but not vice versa.

Deuteronomy 22:28-29 – if a woman is raped in the city and doesn’t cry out, she gets stoned.

Leviticus 18:19 – don’t have sex with your wife during her period.

Numbers 30:10-16 – women’s vows can be nullified by father or husband.

Deuteronomy 25:11-12 – if a woman grabs another man's balls, cut off her hand.

1 Corinthians 11:8-9 – “For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; nor was man created for woman, but woman for man.”

Proverbs 19:13 – “a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.”

Ecclesiastes 7:28 – I have found only one upright person in a thousand, and that is not among women.

Sirach 25:19 – “Any wound, but not a wound of the heart! Any wickedness, but not the wickedness of a woman!”

Thomas Jefferson: "The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared."

Alexander Hamilton: "You will have equal share, but different destiny. Women should be content with their place in the private sphere."

John Quincy Adams: "Women are made for the domestic circle and should never enter public life."

Alexis de Tocqueville: "In America, I see that women are kept in a state of humiliating subjugation which is unworthy of civilized society."

Karl Marx: "The first division of labor is between man and woman for the purpose of breeding."

Voltaire: "Women are only good for two things: bearing children and cooking meals."

Napoleon Bonaparte: "Woman is a slave from her cradle to her grave."

Genghis Khan: "The best thing in life is to hold your enemy's wife in your arms."

Mahatma Gandhi: "I have yet to come across an instance where women have not been able to resist temptation better than men."

Winston Churchill: "A woman's place is in the home."

Adolf Hitler: "The role of the woman is that of a companion and a helpmate to man, but not his equal."

Benito Mussolini: "Women must obey their husbands as they would God, for it is through men that they are connected to divinity."

Joseph Stalin: "In the future, women will be considered as nothing more than a means of reproduction."