r whom she
called sin, lest that again she slip and fall with womanly facility.
Don't you see that woman has sinned once, and man never? If you give
woman an opportunity, she will sin again, whereas if you give it to
man, who never, never betrayed his trust in the world, nothing bad can
happen. Let women be subject to their own husbands as unto the Lord,
for man is the head of woman, and Christ is the head of the
congregation." They are all real good men, all of them. "It is not
permitted to woman to speak; let her be in silence; as the law said:
unto thy husband shalt thou ever be, and he shall bear dominion over
thee."

So St. Chrysostom. He is another good man. "Woman," he says, "was put
under the power of man, and man was pronounced lord over her; that she
should obey man, that the head should not follow the feet. False
priests do commonly deceive women, because they are easily persuaded to
any opinion,--especially if it be again given, and because they lack
prudence and right reason to judge the things that be spoken; which
should not be the nature of those that are appointed to govern others.
For they should be constant, stable, prudent, and doing everything with
discretion and reason, which virtues woman can not have in equality
with man."

I tell you women are more prudent than men. I tell you, as a rule,
women are more truthful than men. I tell you that women are more
faithful than men--ten times as faithful as man. I never saw a man
pursue his wife into the very ditch and dust of degradation and take
her in his arms. I never saw a man stand at the shore where she had
been morally wrecked, waiting for the waves to bring back even her
corpse to his arms but I have seen woman do it. I have seen woman with
her white arms lift man from the mire of degradation, and hold him to
her bosom as though he were an angel.

And these men thought woman not fit to be held as pure in the sight of
God as man. I never saw a man that pretended that he didn't love a
woman; that pretended that he loved God better than he did a woman,
that he didn't look hateful to me, hateful and unclean. I could read
you twenty others, but I haven't time to do it. They are all to the
same effect exactly. They hate woman, and say man is as much above her
as God is above man. I am a believer in absolute equality. I am a
believer in absolute liberty between man and wife. I believe in
liberty, and I say, "Oh, liberty, float not fo