Sandra Marie Schneiders famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 Schneiders

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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 Schneiders

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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.
-- Sandra Marie Schneiders

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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 Schneiders

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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom - the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love. I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.
The US bombed them back to traditional values â€“ feminism does not exist in Japan. While I donâ€™t like judging an entire cultureâ€¦that does not excuse them.
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.
Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself.
No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
Thinking ... is a soundless dialogue, it is the weaving of patterns, it is a search for meaning. The activity of thought contributes to and shapes all that is specifically human.

Sandra Marie Schneiders famous quotes

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