True love is not so much self-denying as self-sharing, so suffused with humility and unpretentiousness, but also with strength, that those who exhibit it are not likely to dwell upon its meaning. Women know what love is. Let them not be tempted from their intuitive knowledge by the false idols that men have enthroned for women to worship. Woman must stand firm and be true to her inner nature; to yield to the prevailing false conceptions of love, of unloving love behind the show of love, is to abdicate the great evolutionary mission to keep human beings true to themselves, to keep them from doing violence to their inner nature, to help them realize their potentialities for being loving and cooperative. Were women to fail in this task, all hope for humanity would depart from the world.
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| | Some day after mastering the wind, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love . And then, for the second time in the history of the world we shall have discovered ourselves .
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Humanity has for too long been sidetracked from the principle of love, of gentleness, of cooperation, by which earlier societies managed to live more closely than modern socially disorganized societies have been able to do. This sidetracking was due, as we have shown in chapter 2, to the destruction of matrism (modeling on a mother-figure), and its replacement with patristic institutions by marauding patriarchal hordes who overran such societies. Every age is an age in transition, and never more so than the age in which we are living. I believe that it is the unique function and destiny of women to teach men to live as if to live and love were one. Not to produce a matriarchal society, but a partnership society.
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| | From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academe That show, contain, and nourish all the world: Else, none at all in aught proves excellent.
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