"It is Christianity which invests women anew with frightening prestige: fear of the other sex is one of the forms assumed by the anguish of man's uneasy conscience. The Christian is divided within himself; the separation of body and soul, of life and spirit, is complete; original sin makes of the body the enemy of the soul; all the ties of the flesh seem evil... since woman remains always the Other, it is not held that reciprocally male and female are both flesh: the flesh that is for the Christian the hostile Other is precisely the woman. In her the Christian finds incarnated the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil."
(Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex)
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