
“Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.”
Pearls of Wisdom
[The Web of Indian Life, Ch. V: The Place of Women in the National Life, http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/wil/wil07.htm, 20 June 2012, Sister Nivedita]
The Web of Indian Life (1904)
“Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.”
Pearls of Wisdom
“A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.”
Source: Northanger Abbey
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī, vol.2, p. 89.
Religious wisdom
Letter to Dr. Porter, Medical Officer of Health for Johannesburg (15 February 1905); later published in The Indian Opinion.
1900s
Source: Lakota Woman (1990), p. 244