Politics · 22 · The Matriarch

Birthing beds and battlefields

Societies at war tend to reduce women to mothers and men to soldiers. Teddy Roosevelt compared women who avoid childbearing to men who flee battle.

The Bible expands women's roles.

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Biblical women are present at assemblies, take initiative, help win battles, and wield political influence.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 358

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