Dorothy Sayers Quote

Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were the first at the cradle and last at the cross. They had never known a man like this Man - there has never been another. A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronized; who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them as "The women, God help us!," or "The Ladies, God bless them!"; who rebuked without peevishness and praised without condescension; who took their questions and arguments seriously; who never mapped out their sphere for them, never urged them to be feminine or jeered at them for being female; who had no axe to grind and no uneasy male dignity to defend; who took them as he found them and was completely unself-conscious. There is no act, no sermon, no parable in the whole Gospel that borrows its pungency from female perversity; nobody could guess from the words and deeds of Jesus that there wan anything "funny" about womens' nature." Dorothy Sayers