“ She loved your mother', Taliesin said gently. 'This is her farewell.' As he spoke, a chanted melody began inside the chamber, a song without words. Yet it spoke of the beauty in the heart of the flame… Rosalind Miles
“ Skupljanje hrane nesumnjivo je bilo na prvom mjestu ženskih dužnosti budući da je taj zadatak održavao pleme na životu. Ni u jednom se trenutku pretpovijesne žene s djecom ili bez nje nisu oslanjale n… Rosalind Miles
“ In all this flurry of false scientism, the central question went unaddressed: if the possession of a penis and outsize brain were the distinguishing marks of the lords of creation, why was the world n… Rosalind Miles
“ To face a man in combat is challenge enough. To find the goddess in a woman is the life work of a man. Hard though the first may be, the second is the harder longer road. But every man seeks the woman… Rosalind Miles
“ Florence Nightingale was never called the Lady with the Lamp, but the Lady with the Hammer, an image deftly readjusted by the war reporter of the Times since it was far too coarse for the folks back h… Rosalind Miles
“ True lovers may never know what love means. A man may love a woman out of his reach. She does not know he loves her, and he will never speak of it. Rosalind Miles
“ For there is much to do, amounting in fact to a remaking of modern society. All democratic experiments, all revolutions, all demands for equality have so far, in every instance, stopped short of sexua… Rosalind Miles
“ Every one of the great belief systems of the world, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Confucianism, insists on women’s inferiority as an article of faith. Individual Rosalind Miles
“ Yet some would say, why women's history at all? Surely men andwomen have always shared a world, and suffered together all its rightsand wrongs? It is a common belief that whatever the situation, boths… Rosalind Miles
“ Now what is Love, I pray thee tell? It is that fountain and that well Where pleasure and repentance dwell.It is perhaps that saucy bell That tolls all into heaven or hell-And this is Love, as I hear t… Rosalind Miles
“ But fall?No. What is it, love?If not a fall, is it a hunger? The appetite casting around for strange meat not yet encountered, hungry for what it does not know yet, but will recognize at the first sce… Rosalind Miles
“ Napoleon pronounced, the husband must possess the absolute power and right to say to his wife, ‘Madam, you shall not go to the theater, you shall not receive such and such a person; for the children y… Rosalind Miles
“ Wherever I am, in wood or field, By dawn or evening light, Without cease my heart feels The pain of one who is not here... Rosalind Miles
“ Oh, I know, I know, she was a sweet girl, a simple country girl; everyone told me that, both then and since. But I could not forgive her animal dumbness - worse, her rank sensuality, easy as any cow's… Rosalind Miles
“ Rabi-’ah’s achievement built on a tradition of female literacy, scholarship and intellectual creativity reaching back to the dawn of thought. Countless ancient myths ascribe the birth of language to w… Rosalind Miles
“ No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope. Rosalind Miles
“ One famous female Sufi mystic and religious teacher was Rabi-’ah al-’ Ada-wiyyah (712‒801), who after a girlhood in slavery fled to the desert, where she rejected all offers of marriage and devoted he… Rosalind Miles
“ Every gain, every success for women is taken to mean that men are being cheated and denigrated. To me it’s healthier to turn the question around. While women were straining every muscle, nerve and bon… Rosalind Miles
“ That he loved her was his life’s greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare. Rosalind Miles
