Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that women hold a significant influence over men, regardless of any attempts to disguise or deny it.
Thomas Moore's quote reflects the enduring power dynamics in relationships, highlighting how the presence and influence of women can guide and control men, even when this influence is not openly acknowledged. It indicates that male experiences and decisions are often swayed by female perspectives and emotions, thereby emphasizing the importance and strength of women's role in society.
In practice
This quote can be shared in discussions about gender roles at a conference.
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Empathy isnβt just something that happens to us β a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain β itβs also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves.
In the days that follow, he begins to remember things about Moushumi, images that come to him without warning while he is sitting at his desk at work, or during a meeting, or drifting off to sleep, or standing in the mornings under the shower. They are scenes he has carried within him, buried but intact, scenes he has never thought about or had reason to conjure up until now.
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Husbands and wives, first, be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
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