Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception.
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. - Freda Adler
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
- Freda Adler
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction. - Freda Adler
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.
The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unack… - Freda Adler
The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unack…
The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal … - Freda Adler
The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal …
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. - Freda Adler
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, … - Freda Adler
There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, …
It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking. - Freda Adler
It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.
If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal,"… - Freda Adler
If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal,"…
The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds. - Freda Adler
The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.
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