Eve recalls us to our real selves, to our full selves, to our incomplete selves. It is Eve who makes the feminine as normative as the masculine. She makes equality the measure of humanity. She makes us mourn the limitations that we have put upon ourselves in the name of God.
The fact is that Eve is icon of strength and hope, sign and light, star and promise, possibility and opportunity to women around the world, and she challenges each of us to be the same.
— Joan Chittister, A Passion for Life