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ALLEGED QUOTE: "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." Augustine, Unknown Source
Red Flag: This quote is usually passed around without being credited to any original source. When we are given a
source, it is usually attributed to The Dark Side of Christian History by Helen Ellerbe. However, this is not an
original source from an actual work of Augustine. In order for this quote to be given serious consideration,
skeptics need to come up with something other than Source Unknown when copying and pasting this quote onto
their websites.
ALLEGED QUOTE: "Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a
deadly fascination, and a painted ill." St. John Chrysostom, Unknown Source
Red Flag: Again, this quote is usually passed around without an original source linking it to an actual work of
Chrysostom. However, this source does not come to us from Chrysostom at all- it is from a work called The
Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486. The work discusses the method of treatment of those suspected of
witchcraft, certainly written by men who used the persecution of the accused to feed their own misguided notions
of sexism.
ALLEGED QUOTE: "Every woman ought to be filled with shame at the thought she is a woman." Clement of
Alexandria, Unknown Source
Red Flag: Once again, there is never an original source attributed to this quote. The best we are offered is a
source...of a source...of a source coming from Lea's The History of Sacerdotal Celibacy (page 320) as quoted
from Joseph Lewis' The Ten Commandments (page 422). However neither Clement nor this quote is even
mentioned in either work.
ALLEGED QUOTE: "Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a
dangerous species." Saint Jerome, Unknown Source
Red Flag: This quote surfaces in the 1893 speech of Susan H. Wixon, Woman: Four Centuries of Progress. Once
again, this quote is never accompanied by an original source from an actual work of Saint Jerome.
ALLEGED QUOTE: "Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace." St. John
Damascene, Unknown Source
Red Flag: Like the quote above, this quote also surfaces in Wixon's 1893 speech. Once again, this quote never
contains a citation from an original work of the author in question.
CONCLUSION: Though these quotes have been proven erroneous, it is certainly true women have not always
been held in high regard throughout history. Even in the United States women's rights were limited until the last
century or so. There have been those who thought very little of women just as there were those who held people
of different races, social levels, and religions in utter contempt. But these have been the personal opinions
held by fallible human individuals who do not follow the teachings of the Jesus (who commanded men to love
their wives as Christ loved the Church and says the prayers of men who mistreat their wives will be ignored!).
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