Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page 49
... kind of short - cut through the com- plexity of human personality . He does not have to enter intuitively into the souls of the powerless , or to hear what they are saying in their many languages , including the language of silence ...
... kind of short - cut through the com- plexity of human personality . He does not have to enter intuitively into the souls of the powerless , or to hear what they are saying in their many languages , including the language of silence ...
Page 50
... kind of willed ignorance , a moral stupidity , about the inwardness of others , hence of oneself . This qual- ity has variously been described as " detachment , ' " objectivity , " " sanity " -as if the recognition of an- other's being ...
... kind of willed ignorance , a moral stupidity , about the inwardness of others , hence of oneself . This qual- ity has variously been described as " detachment , ' " objectivity , " " sanity " -as if the recognition of an- other's being ...
Page 74
... kind and particularly of men . Just as the child is first disciplined by his mother , so the races of men are first disciplined by woman . The male must serve before he can govern . It is the woman's vocation to tame man's primordial ...
... kind and particularly of men . Just as the child is first disciplined by his mother , so the races of men are first disciplined by woman . The male must serve before he can govern . It is the woman's vocation to tame man's primordial ...
Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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