Quote:The genius of Gress’s rhetoric is that it is not an appeal to regressive submission but to reason, to reverence — women are cherished, mothers are honored, families are sacred. Many people, progressives and conservatives, men and women alike, would agree broadly with these claims. And yet these statements can lead, step by insidious step, to a politics that removes women from public life altogether.

Quote:On stage, Gress slowly bent her arm inward. Then she extended it toward the audience. Look at how it bends, she said. Then she pointed to the male moderator. See how his arm is straight, and my arm is bent? Feminism has taught us to hate these differences in physiology, but the truth is, our bodies were made to bear children. God made this arm — my arm — to cradle a child.