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The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.

I haven't had an orthodox career.

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

People often ask how I can reject the phrase 'woman writer' and not reject the phrase 'Jewish writer' - a preposterous question. 'Jewish' is a category of civilization, culture, and intellect, and 'woman' is a category of anatomy and physiology.

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.