Unladylike Quotes

“When women are repeatedly given a list of do’s and don’ts aimed at our feminine nature, it teaches women not to trust our bodies. Women then equate visible curves as visible sexuality, as if admitting one has boobs is admitting that one has sex. This is far from true, yet for women of faith, we are relegated to neutering ourselves in order to appear sexually pure and to keep our brothers from burning with lust.”
― Pam Hogeweide, Unladylike: Resisting the Injustice of Inequality in the Church

“Culture wants to sexualize us; church, it seems, wants to desexualize us. In the end, women are left staring in the mirror and wondering if our skirt is too short for Sunday service.”
― Pam Hogeweide, Unladylike: Resisting the Injustice of Inequality in the Church

“25,000 Methodist church members collectively owned more than 200,000 slaves in 1843.14”
― Pam Hogeweide, Unladylike: Resisting the Injustice of Inequality in the Church

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Pam Hogeweide, Unladylike: Resisting the Injustice of Inequality in the Church

“The issue of women and leadership in the church is not an issue of theology. It is an issue of justice.”
― Pam Hogeweide, Unladylike: Resisting the Injustice of Inequality in the Church

“Gifting is Spirit based, not gender based,”
― Pam Hogeweide, Unladylike: Resisting the Injustice of Inequality in the Church

“Any denomination, movement or local church that excludes women from full equality with men, perpetuates a wrong the gospel of Jesus has made right.”
― Pam Hogeweide, Unladylike: Resisting the Injustice of Inequality in the Church