Denis De RougemontThis peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.
About This Quote
This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics. The connection I refer to here is that the feudal system in Europe was based on the idea that men were warriors, while women were the guardians of the family. The latter’s role was to protect their kinfolk from harm, while their male counterparts were expected to identify, pursue, and capture their foes. This system placed women in an impossible position, because they could not distinguish between friend and foe.
This connection has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics. Women are forced into a position where they must endure abuse at the hands of men who are unable to identify their enemies. Women are given access to education but denied power in society.
They are denied access to politics because men have no understanding of what it is like to be a woman in a patriarchal society.
Source: Love In The Western World
Some Similar Quotes
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
- I would always rather be happy than dignified.
- Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like...
- It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid,...
- I am not an angel, ' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall...
More Quotes By Denis De Rougemont
- Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
- This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.
- What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.
- To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.
- Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.