Ashley Montagu - The natural superiority of women (1953)

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Women must be granted complete equality with men, for only when this has been done will they fully be able to realize themselves.

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Women are the mothers of humanity; do not let us ever forget that or underemphasize its importance. What mothers are to their children, so will man be to man.

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Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

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Women are the bearers, the nurtures of life; men have more often tended to be the curtailers, the destroyers of life.

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I consider the theme of this book to be a most important one, for I am convinced, and I hope the reader will agree, that good relations between the sexes are basic to the development of good human relations in all societies.

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Women are the carriers of the true spirit of humanity — the love of the mother for her child. The preservation of that kind of love is the true function of women. And let me, at this point, endeavor to make it quite clear why I mean the love of a mother for her child and not the love of an equal for an equal or any other kind of love.

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Human societies must be based on human relations first, and economic activities must be a function of human relations — not the other way round.

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The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.

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The sexes should not compete; they should cooperate and complement each other.

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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

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