Quotes
Father-dominated people who form father-dominated cultures have father-religions: a male deity, an authoritative scripture, a strong central government, an intolerance for inquiry and research, a repressive sexual attitude, a deep conservatism (for one does not change what Father built), a rigid demarcation, in dress and conduct, between the sexes, and a profound horror of homosexuality.
Mother-dominated people who form mother-dominated cultures have mother religions: a female deity served by priestesses, a liberal government—one which feeds the masses and succors the helpless—a great tolerance for experimental thought, a permissive attitude toward sex, a hazy boundary between the insignes of the sexes, and a dread of incest.
p. 131
Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.
There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.
p. 22
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady,
Are sisters under their skins.
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!
[T]here are women who are for all your "times of life." They're the most wonderful sort.
The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his — attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park.
She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
"'A woman's wisdom is her gift to women,'" Peggy quoted. "'Her beauty is her gift to men. Her love is her gift to God.'"
Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
