Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

About This Quote

Women have been given the role of being the most important person in a man's life. They are seen as the ones who can do nothing except love. It is a role that they have been taught to believe is their whole life. While women may truly be the most important part of a man's life, that does not mean that they have to be loved more than anything else.

Men have been taught to see women as the most important part of their lives, but it is often because men feel they must prove how much they love their wives by putting them above everything else. It's a way of trying to show how serious they are about being committed to their wives and how much they care for them. Some men choose to ignore this fact and let women take first place in their hearts and lives, but that’s on them and not on women as a whole.

What we must do as people who love one another is try and see both the similarities and the differences between men and women.

Source: The Moon And Sixpence

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