A woman is for a man both more or less than a person: she is something terribly necessary and necess

A woman is for a man both more or less than a person: she is something terribly necessary and necessarily terrible. She is not simply “more than an exploited worker,” she is not simply the “other”; she is first of all the Mother who has to be possessed, reduced, controlled, lest she swallow him back into her dark caves, or stare him into stone.Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution  -- source link

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