Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Tenderness is a virtue.
Women always have to have this soft, maternal, sort of - I don't know - moral center.
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.
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