“Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, because Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with Him.” – Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?”

“I now told [Richard Allen], that the Lord had revealed it to me, that must preach the gospel…But as to women preaching, he said that our Discipline knew nothing at all about it – that it did not call for women preachers.” – Jarena Lee

“If the man may preach, because the Saviour died for him, will not the woman, seeing he died for her also, is he not in duty bound to preach, would seem to make it appear it wrong for a woman to preach, would seem to make it appear it wrong for Christ to die for women.” – Jarena Lee

“A woman’s preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs; you never expect to see it done well, but the wonder is that ever it should be done at all” – Philip Cater quotes Samuel Johnson to criticize Zilpha Elaw