
Prabhati Mukherjee in:"Hindu Women: Normative Models", p. 49.
Prabhati Mukherjee in: Hindu Women: Normative Models http://books.google.com/books?id=6ovdvq7mjpUC&pg=PA39, Orient Blackswan, 1 January 1994, p. 48
Prabhati Mukherjee in:"Hindu Women: Normative Models", p. 49.
Pradip Bhattacharya in: "Five Holy Virgins, Five Sacred Myths A Quest for Meaning"
Five Holy Virgins, Five Sacred MythsOf Kunti and Satyawati Sexually Assertive Women of the Mahabharata
“The knights in [Britain] that were famous for feats of chivalry, wore their clothes and arms all of the same colour and fashion: and the women also no less celebrated for their wit, wore all the same kind of apparel; and esteemed none worthy of their love, but such as had given a proof of their valour in three several battles. Thus was the valour of the men an encouragement for the women's chastity, and the love of the women a spur to the soldier's bravery.”
Quicumque vero famosus probitate miles in eadem erat unius coloris vestibus atque armis utebatur facete etiam mulieres consimilia indumenta habentes. Nullius amorem habere dignabantur nisi tercio in milicia probates esset. Efficiebantur ergo caste et meliores et milites pro amore illarum probiores.
Bk. 9, ch. 13; pp. 244-5.
Sometimes said to be the earliest reference to love as an ennobling influence.
Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain)
From Fukuzawa Yukichi on Japanese Women (1988), trans. Kiyooka Eiichi.
"A Talk to Western Buddhists" p. 89
The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990)
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)