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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest. ↗
#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #encroachment #feminism
If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won’t be any questions, murkiness, cloudiness, or fear. ↗
#he-s-just-not-that-into-you #holding-out-for-the-best #love #not-settling #positive-thinking
In comparison, young unmarried women in America were fortunate: They had a certain measure of sexual freedom. Eighteenth-century parents allowed their daughters to spend tie with suitors unsupervised, and courting couples openly engaged in "bundling," the practice of sleeping together without undressing, in the girls' homes. (Theoretically, that is, they were sleeping together without undressing: in fact, premarital pregnancy boomed during the period of 1750 to 1780, when bundling was nearly universal.) But by the turn of the century, in a complete reversal of previous beliefs about women's sexuality, the idea took hold that only men were carnal creatures; women were thought to be passionless and therefore morally superior. ↗
It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective. ↗
#friends #friendship #honoring-yourself #letting-go #loving-yourself
It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it. ↗
#drama #friends #friendship #holding-out-for-the-best #honoring-yourself
Look around you at the people you spend the most time with and realize that your life can’t rise any higher than your friendships. ↗
#friendship #holding-out-for-the-best #letting-go #letting-go-of-negative-people #loving-yourself
Stop inviting people who don't celebrate you to your party! It's YOUR life - you have the right to be exclusive. ↗
#friendship #honoring-yourself #letting-go #loving-yourself #moving-on
I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys? ↗
God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return. Where you ought to be ahead of your wife in virtue, you collapse under the onset of lechery. ... Complaints are always being made about men's lechery, yet wives do not dare to find fault with their husbands for it. Male lechery is so brazen and so habitual that it is now sanctioned [= permitted], to the extent that men tell their wives that lechery and adultery are legitimate for men but not for women. ↗
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know how they managed to make this law in their favour, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well? What makes them think they can boast of the same thing that in women brings only shame? ↗
