Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.


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Congress
MARY MCCARTHY
The incipient institution needs some stabilizing principle to stop its premature demise. That stabil...
MARY DOUGLAS
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very s...
MARY RENAULT
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
MARY RENAULT
Watching my parents I've learnt a lesson many do not recognize. True love is not signaled by romanti...
MARY KATE
The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace ...
MARY CONNEALY
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and ro...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
MARY HIRSCH
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
MARY MACCRACKEN
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
MARY CHASE
Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing th...
MARY ROACH
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
MARY SHELLEY
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery c...
MARY SHELLEY
Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, ...
MARY KARR
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
MARY BROWNE
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roam...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
MARY SHELLEY
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the mo...
MARY ASTELL
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegr...
MARY OLIVER
I want to go to Italy and France; those are my two places. And I really want to go to Greece. I'...
MARY LAMBERT
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation wi...
MARY DOUGLAS
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roug...
MARY OLIVER
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
MARY SHELLEY
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to disp...
MARY PIPHER