The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
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Havelock Ellis
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About Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transgender psychology. He developed the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Havelock EllisFailing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
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'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our conside…
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Man lives by imagination.