Havelock Ellis - Women Quotes

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Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

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"Charm"—which means the power to effect work without employing brute force—is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

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If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

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The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the text of Men and Women.

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The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.

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I am regarded as an authority on sex, a fact which sometimes amused one or two (though not all) of my intimate women friends.

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