| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: lines of Xenophon's treatise.
"While in creating the body of woman with less capacity for these
things," I continued, "God would seem to have imposed on her the
indoor works; and knowing that He had implanted in the woman and
imposed upon her the nurture of new-born babies, He endowed her with a
larger share of affection for the new-born child than He bestowed upon
man.[24] And since He imposed on woman the guardianship of the things
imported from without, God, in His wisdom, perceiving that a fearful
spirit was no detriment to guardianship,[25] endowed the woman with a
larger measure of timidity than He bestowed on man. Knowing further
that he to whom the outdoor works belonged would need to defend them
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll: And it always looks grave at a pun.
"The fourth is its fondness for bathing-machines,
Which is constantly carries about,
And believes that they add to the beauty of scenes--
A sentiment open to doubt.
"The fifth is ambition. It next will be right
To describe each particular batch:
Distinguishing those that have feathers, and bite,
And those that have whiskers, and scratch.
"For, although common Snarks do no manner of harm,
Yet, I feel it my duty to say,
The Hunting of the Snark |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: than was I when I found an apparently imperative demand had
disappeared without my noticing it.
And all the time those tender mother eyes, those keen scientific
eyes, noting every condition and circumstance, and learning how to
"take time by the forelock" and avoid discussion before occasion arose.
I was amazed at the results. I found that much, very much,
of what I had honestly supposed to be a physiological necessity
was a psychological necessity--or so believed. I found, after my
ideas of what was essential had changed, that my feelings changed also.
And more than all, I found this--a factor of enormous weight--these
women were not provocative. That made an immense difference.
Herland |
