Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.
It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.
A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.