The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknown ...in America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an ...Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to ha...ve the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »