Family life will never be decent, much less ennobling, until this central horror of the dependence of women on men is done away with
...and the phrase that really hit me was 'central horror of the dependence of women on men'....for it is just that....it is a horror.... and we women are so often conned into or programmed into or forced into or bamboozled into believing that it is only men who can help us live...if live at all...We are made to believe that we are inferior - brain-wise, strength-of-mind-wise, ability-to-think-wise, ability-to-look-after-ourselves-wise, ability-to-earn-our-living-wise, and every-other-wise. Or even if not inferior, women are taught men must be given the first chances, or well, anyway, we come second....
This phrase strikes down all these myths, for myths and figments of imagination these most definitely are...
And the second phrase that caught me was 'Family life will never be decent, much less ennobling...until.....' Isn't family important to all of us....and don't we, right from childhood, when asked to draw a home, make a home with Mom, Dad, and kids holding hands, standing in front of it? But the very decency of family life depends on, in fact is contingent on the independence of the women in the family...
Now that is something to think about.......and work towards if we haven't started on it already....
Cheers!