"Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men."

"The woman herself alone is not the image of God; whereas the man alone is the image of God as fully and completely as when the woman is joined with him."

"The things we love and desire are not ours to hold. Love turns false and dangerous when we assert ourselves as the masters of our universe. Our original sin, in Augustine's view, is the human conditio…"

"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."

"It is natural for men to rule over women."