@X Immigrant here are some quotations for you. There's more btw.
ORIGEN of Alexandria
“Men should not sit and listen to a woman … ‘For it is improper for a woman to speak in an assembly,’ no matter what she says, even if she says admirable things, or even saintly things, that is of little consequence, since they come from the mouth of a woman.”
Fragments on 1 Corinthians 74
“What is seen with the eyes of the Creator is masculine, and not feminine, for God does not stoop to look upon what is feminine and of the flesh.”
Selecta in Exodum (
Fragments on Exodus),
Patrologia Graeca 12, Column 296–297
IRENAEUS, Bishop of Lugdunum (Lyon)
"In a discussion about why Miriam was punished more harshly than Aaron when they both criticised Moses, Irenaeus states that “both nature and the law place the woman in a subordinate condition to the man.”
Irenaeus,
Fragment, 32
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
“The woman taught once, and ruined all. On this account therefore he says, let her not teach. But what is it to other women, that she suffered this? It certainly concerns them; for the sex is weak and fickle, and he is speaking of the sex collectively.”
Homily 9 on First Timothy
“Man was first formed, and elsewhere he shows their superiority.”
Homily 9 on First Timothy
“God maintained the order of each sex by dividing the business of life into two parts, and assigned the more necessary and beneficial aspects to the man and the less important, inferior matter to the woman.”
The Kind of Women who ought to be taken as Wives
“Hearken about the women of old; they were great characters, great women and admirable; such were Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, Deborah, and Hannah; and such there were also in the days of Christ. Yet did they in no case outstrip the men, but occupied the second rank.”
Homily 13 on Ephesians
EPIPHANIUS, Bishop of Cyprus and Salamis
While denouncing the female prophets Quintilla, Maximilla, and Priscilla, Epiphanius made this remark: “Women are unstable, prone to error, and mean-spirited.”
Panarion (also known as,
Against Heresies)
SAINT AUGUSTINE
“I don’t see what sort of help woman was created to provide man with, if one excludes procreation. If woman is not given to man for help in bearing children, for what help could she be? To till the earth together? If help were needed for that, man would have been a better help for man. The same goes for comfort in solitude. How much more pleasure is it for life and conversation when two friends live together than when a man and a woman cohabitate?”
De Genesi ad literam (
The Literal Meaning of Genesis)
“… woman was given to man, woman who was of small intelligence and who perhaps still lives more in accordance with the promptings of the inferior flesh than by superior reason. Is this why the apostle Paul does not attribute the image of God to her?”
De Genesi ad literam, 11.42
“… the woman together with her own husband is the image of God, so that that whole substance may be one image; but when she is referred separately to her quality of help-meet, which regards the woman herself alone, then she is not the image of God; but as regards the man alone, he is the image of God as fully and completely as when the woman too is joined with him in one.”
On the Trinity, 12.7.10
“What is the difference whether it is in a wife or a mother, it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any woman.”
Letter to Laetus (Letter 243.10)
