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„The Torah, Bible and Quran were written, compiled, and edited entirely by men in patriarchal cultures. Women appear in its pages almost exclusively as wives, mothers, temptresses, or victims, rarely as independent moral or intellectual agents, and never as authors of its texts. Foote’s line simply notes that this complete exclusion from authorship may one day be viewed not as a deficiency but as a point of pride—women having had no hand in producing a document that has so often been used to justify their subordination.“
