Helen Andelin quotes

“To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were designed to be.”
-- Helen Andelin

Source : Helen Andelin (2013). “Fascinating Womanhood: The Updated Edition of the Classic Bestseller That Shows You How to Strengthen our Marriage and Enrich Your Life”, p.143, Bantam

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“To be successful in the family the father must have the welfare of each family member at heart and his decisions and plans must be based upon what is best for them.”
-- Helen Andelin

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“A man wants a woman who will place him at the top of his priority list, not second but first. He wants to be the kingpin around which all other activities of her life revolve.”
-- Helen Andelin

Source : Helen Andelin (2013). “Fascinating Womanhood: The Updated Edition of the Classic Bestseller That Shows You How to Strengthen our Marriage and Enrich Your Life”, p.91, Bantam

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“The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.”
-- Helen Andelin

Source : Helen Andelin (2013). “Fascinating Womanhood: The Updated Edition of the Classic Bestseller That Shows You How to Strengthen our Marriage and Enrich Your Life”, p.125, Bantam

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“To Allah we belong and to Him is our return.”

Source : Abdullah Yusuf Ali (2001). “The Qurʼan: Translation”, p.14, TTQ, INC.

“The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.”

“... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.”

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”

Source : Alberto Manguel (2011). “A Reading Diary”, p.66, Vintage Canada

“Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.”

“Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.”

“When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe...”

“I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.”

“I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.”

“Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings.”

Source : Laurie Penny (2011). “Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism”, p.11, John Hunt Publishing