Wise Words from "The Surrendered Wife" - Part IV

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know it minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties and its very atoms. - Kahlil Gibran

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change, what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. - G. C. Lichtenberg

All of us at certain moments of our lives need to take advice an to receive help from other people. - Alexis Cabrell

If a woman can only succeed by emulating men, I think it is a great loss and not a success. The aim is not only for a woman to succeed, but to keep her womanhood and let her womanhood influence society. - Suzanne Brogger

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything its cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. - Rollo May

The married are tose who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. - Carolyn Heilbrun

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. - Josh Billings