Christina Stead - For Love Alone (1944)

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It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.

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She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and in herself, where all was yet only the night of senses and wild dreams, the work of passion going on.

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Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.

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Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

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Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

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