from “The Human-Not-Quite-Human,” collected in the book Are Women Human? by Dorothy L. Are Women Human Penetrating, Sensible, and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society. Women are not human nobody shall persuade that they are human let them say what they like, we will not believe it, though One rose from the dead.” “But we might easily deduce it from His contemporaries, and from His prophets before Him, and from His church to this day. One of the first women to graduate from Oxford, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals whether or not what she wanted to do was ordinarily understood to be. There is no act, no sermon, no parable in the whole gospel that borrows its pungency from female perversity no one could possibly guess from the words and deeds of Jesus that there was anything “funny” about women’s nature.
A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronised who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as “The women, God help us!” or “The ladies, God bless them!” who rebuked without querulousness 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. They had never known a man like this Man – there never has been such another. “Perhaps it is no wonder that women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross.
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