“The bodily strength, the fierceness and beauty of young women.”
"Complete Hero" (2009)
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British artist and activist 1963Related quotes
“Two hearts that are but one have shown their strength in fierce enmity.”
Hie hânt zwei herzen einvalt
Mit hazze erzeiget ir gewalt.
Bk. 14, st. 689, line 28; p. 345.
Parzival
Ch 13 The Quaker Settlement
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
“Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant.”
After Long Silence http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1432/
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
Context: Speech after long silence; it is right,
All other lovers being estranged or dead,
Unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade,
The curtains drawn upon unfriendly night,
That we descant and yet again descant
Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song:
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant.
Women and Madness (2005), p. 349, and see Women and Madness (1972), p. 302 (similar text).
Women and Madness (1972, 2005)
“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”
As quoted in Quote Unquote (1977) by Lloyd Cory, p. 364
1970s
“It is useless to be young without being beautiful, or beautiful without being young.”
Il ne sert à rien d'être jeune sans être belle, ni d'être belle sans être jeune.
Maxim 497.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 13.