This conflict between the powers of love and chastity ... it ended apparently in the triumph of chastity. Love was suppressed, hel...d in darkness and chains, by fear, conventionality, aversion, or a tremulous yearning to be pure.... But this triumph of chastity was only an apparent, a pyrrhic victory. It would break through the ban of chastity, it would emerge--if in a form so altered as to be unrecognizable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In social halls a favored guest In years that follow victory won,... How sweet to feel your festal fame In woman's glance instinctive thrown: Repose is yours--your deed is known,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might b...oth hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It must be a peace without victory.... Victory would mean peace forced upon the losers, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquish...ed. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which the terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Determination and skill come out of a depth of political and cultural experiences. Women resist and are brave in the most ordinary...-seeming situations: on a welfare line, after being told that medical benefits are going to cut; on a street late at night helping a sister who is being harassed; as a mother demanding that the hospital stop experimenting with sterilization on her daughters; one sister to another trying to convince her to stop shooting up because it's giving the man a victory, swallowing up her life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »