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88: …The woman is indeed of the greater importance to the race. She has the… |
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…The woman is indeed of the greater importance to the race. She has the
greater burden and the greater work. Look at the vegetable and the animal
worlds. The palm which carries the fruit is the tree most prized by the date
grower. The Arab knows that for a long journey the mare has the longest wind.
For her greater strength and fierceness, the lioness is more feared by the
hunter than the lion.
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The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she has also special gifts
which enable her to govern in moments of danger and crisis….
(“‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London: Addresses, and Notes of Conversations” (London: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1982), pp. 102–3) [88] |
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