“Appetite emotion must first, last and always be adapted to love.”

— William Moulton Marston

Source: The Emotions of Normal People (1928), p.393 as quoted in The Ages of Wonder Woman: Essays on the Amazon Princess in Changing Times, edited by Joeph J Darowski, p.8; in the essay "William Marston's Feminist Agenda" by Michelle R. Finn.

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American psychologist, lawyer, inventor and comic book writ… 1893–1947

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