Gillian Dance > Quotes

“They were such warm, considerate, inclusive people rather than the overwhelmingly superficial, stuck-up, self-involved, cliquey people at St. Paul's”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“All women are born evil.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“She would be able to stay mediocre, something that I would never be able to go back to being.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“We were never carefree. Cares just change over the years.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“Men were perfect beings, created first by God, and to rule and women were imperfect and fallible, created as an afterthought to serve the man.”
― Gillian Dance

“They were not the rich, preened, middle-class hipsters of St. Paul's Church, but neither were they dull, mousy and grey as elsewhere.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“If you are not one with us you divide the church. If you ever choose to miss another meeting you needn't come again.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“I truly thought that it was a fact that every man was completely devoid of emotion, that sex was a tool of power for men.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“If you dispute something written in the bible you can’t plausibly claim to have ‘faith’ in that same God.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“How strange that in my thoughts I should accept of myself that as a woman, I was a charge, belonging to another, not permitted to come and go unaccounted for.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“The self is the enemy of Christ.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“Women were created for men, women were inferior to men, to disbelieve God now would render me even more worthless; but the realization of that broke me somewhere deep inside.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“I learnt about mastering my mind, bringing wayward thoughts into subjection to the word of God.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“It had shocked me how the people I loved and trusted most had spat out words like daggers.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“Sinful pride, arrogance and female assertion over male was all satanic…”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“Yes, it is my sole aim to brainwash you people. To make your minds, hearts and spirits pure and acceptable to Christ for Judgement Day.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“As my father always said, ‘sexism is a modern concept’.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“God is not only love as those spineless, insipid churches have told you. God can't be condensed to fit into your little world, running to apologise for your disappointments.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“I can't say that many of the youngsters at church aspired to be saints or lead particularly 'Godly' lives, they canoodled, smoked pot, drank excessively and were generally a whole lot more rebellious than most of the irreligious children from my school.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“There it was again, that word, obedient. Dredged up out of the dark ages by a man scarcely older than me”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“All the 'God is your father and he loves you' twaddle that they constantly taught at St. Paul's. It was so wet it made me squirm sometimes”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“It is a greater sin to speak against a man you are subject to in the name of God, you may as well be speaking against the Lord himself.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“As in every romance, the less admirable traits only became apparent later.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“All so religious that no one was cynical enough to think for a moment about how incredibly rich we were making him personally, while he languished indoors 'in prayer'.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“When I felt so enveloped in love, I was being conditioned into a particular way of thinking.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“As a diminutive woman I didn’t take any offense at all at sometimes being referred to as ‘the weaker vessel’, but Magali was almost comically enraged by it.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“I had to face a certain disappointment in God. This real God I had finally met was actually a man and favoured a man's world, discriminated against me.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“No matter how I humbled myself I couldn’t be satisfied and fulfilled as this insignificant and silent woman.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“They wanted clean-cut people to showcase their middle-class lives.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“They were not a bunch of freaks, neither were they bible bashers, they were people who cared about each other, their friends and their families.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion