Red Damask: A Story of Nurture and Nature

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Harper & Brothers, 1927 - Man-woman relationships - 426 pages
"Unhappy love affair and unsatisfying marriage of a woman brought up in a strict German-Jewish family." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation
 

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Page 89 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 390 - War; delivered its blow fiercely and suddenly; stopped at no barrier either of law or of mercy; swept a whole continent within the tide of blood — not the blood of soldiers only, but the blood of innocent women and children also and of the helpless poor; and now stands balked but not defeated, the enemy of four-fifths of the world.
Page 41 - How modest, kindly, all-accomplish'd, wise, With what sublime repression of himself, And in what limits, and how tenderly; Not swaying to this faction or to that; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantage-ground For pleasure ; but thro...
Page 390 - ... establishment controlled by an irresponsible government which, having secretly planned to dominate the world, proceeded to carry the plan out without regard either to the sacred obligations of treaty or the long-established practices and...
Page 97 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Page 321 - State-regulated and State-registered marriage. Sexual relationships, so long as they do not result in the production of children, are matters in which the community has, as a community, little or no concern, but as soon as a sexual relationship results in the pregnancy of the woman the community is at once interested. At this point it is clearly the duty of the State to register the relationship.
Page 119 - Rings on her fingers, Bells on her toes ; She shall have music Wherever she goes.
Page 359 - ... needs of the troops, irrespective of rank. This is certainly shocking, a model of a shamelessly libidinous phantasy, but — the dream says nothing about this. Just where the context demands this confession, there is in the manifest dream an indistinct murmur: something has been lost or suppressed. I hope you recognize how obvious is the inference that it is just the shocking nature of these passages which has led to their suppression.
Page 71 - There was nobody to tell them what to do or how to do it. They had to attend clinics and patients, but they had sympathetic instructors and a laboratory to work in.

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