52 Quotes by Susan Jacoby

I can’t imagine falling in love with a devoutly religious person.

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. The creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.

I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed that than I can imagine falling in love with someone who believes that blacks shouldn’t be able to vote and are inferior to whites.

I’m not saying that I think atheists are better than other people. God, no. What I am saying is I do feel that this an integral part of who I am. And it’s not something that I could comfortably think of not sharing with the person I loved most in the world.

I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.

The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of romantic attention in adolescence.

I have received many touching letters and emails from people who live in the most religious parts of the country, in places like rural Texas, saying it is so good to see someone be able to say I am an atheist without shame.

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.