Have Women Been Cursed By God?

“Sin began with a woman, and thanks to her we must all die.”​—ECCLESIASTICUS, SECOND CENTURY B.C.E.

“You are the devil’s gateway: you are the unsealer of that forbidden tree: you are the first deserter of the divine law . . . You destroyed so easily God’s image, man.”​—TERTULLIAN, ON THE APPAREL OF WOMEN, SECOND CENTURY C.E.