“The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.”
Alone of All Her Sex (London: Picador, [1976] 1985) p. 338.
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2011-08-06
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/response-dobsons-ask-god-give-america-miracle-dunkirk
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