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Date: 09 May 2008 11:33:02
Here is a quote I've been meaning to share for a while. I found it while I was researching my essay over Easter and saved it for a day with not much else to blog about. It has certainly given me a lot to think about. If you want to read more of her short pieces on religion, literature, life etc. they are very rewarding. Unpopular Opinions is the main collection, but there are sure to be others.
Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man -- there never has been such another. A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronised; who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as "The women, God help us!" or "The ladies, God bless them!"; who rebuked without querulousness and praised without condescension; who took their questions and arguments seriously; who never mapped out their sphere for them, never urged them to be feminine or jeered at them for being female; who had no axe to grind and no uneasy male dignity to defend; who took them as he found them and was completely unself-conscious. There is no act, no sermon, no parable in the whole Gospel that borrows its pungency from female perversity; nobody could possibly guess from the words and deeds of Jesus that there was anything "funny" about woman's nature.
But we might easily deduce it from His contemporaries, and from His prophets before Him, and from His Church to this day.
From The Human-Not-Quite-Human, p121 in the 1946 edition of Unpopular Opinions.