The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.
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This view frames marriage as a constraint rather than a mutual partnership.
The ability to learn is older- as it is also more widespread- than is the ability to teach.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luc…
Too much has already been said and written about 'women's sphere'. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped …