[I]gnorant people today should believe in Śākyamuni Buddha as the Most Venerable One (honzon), and they will automatically be able to avoid being unfilial to the Buddha. If they, moreover, believe in the Lotus Sūtra, they will also be able to avoid unknowingly committing the sin of slandering the True Dharma. Besides, as it is said that women have the five hindrances and the three to obey (parents, husband, and children), women are disliked in the world and abandoned in the holy scriptures of the Buddha’s lifetime teachings. Only in the Lotus Sūtra does a female dragon attain Buddhahood and many nuns were guaranteed to be future Buddhas. If all the women in the world should abandon this sūtra, which other sūtra should they then embrace?

Zemmui-shō, Treatise on Śubhākarasiṃha, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Faith and Practice, Volume 4, Page 54-55