This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
Character | Circumstances | Security | Will | Woman |
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
Woman |
A fool has not material enough to be good.
Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.
However deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.
There is nearly as much ability requisite to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
Woman |
The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Woman |
Youth changes its inclinations through heat of blood; old age perseveres in them through the power of habit.
Woman |
One, whose subdu'd eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum.
Ban Zhao, courtesy name Huiban
With whole-hearted devotion to sew and to weave; to love not gossip and silly laughter; in cleanliness and order to prepare the wine and food for serving guests, may be called the characteristics of womanly work.
Murasaki Shikibu, aka Lady Murasaki
The hanging gate, of something like trelliswork, was propped on a pole, and he could see that the house was tiny and flimsy. He felt a little sorry for the occupants of such a place--and then asked himself who in this world had a temporary shelter.
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Ban Zhao, courtesy name Huiban
Now examine the gentlemen of the present age. They only know thar wives must be controlled, and that the husband's rules of conduct manifesting his authority must be established. They therefore teach their boys to read books and study histories. But they do not in the least understand that husbands and masters must also be served, and that the proper relationship and the rites should be maintained. Yet only to teach men and not to teach women -- is that not ignoring the essential relation between them? According to the "Rites," it is the rule to begin to teach children to read at the age of eight years, and by the age of fifteen years they ought then to be ready for cultural training. Only why should it not be that girls' education as well as boys' be according to this principle?
Disgrace | Life | Life | Reputation | Woman |
When crossing a river in bright moonlight, I love to see the water scatter in showers of crystal under the oxen's feet.
Ban Zhao, courtesy name Huiban
No woman who observes these three fundamentals of life has ever had a bad reputation or has fallen into disgrace. If a woman fail to observe them, how can her name be honored; how can she but bring disgrace upon herself?
Ban Zhao, courtesy name Huiban
As Yin and Yang are not of the same nature, so man and woman have different characteristics. The distinctive quality of the Yang is rigidity; the function of the Yin is yielding. Man is honored for strength; a woman is beautiful on account of her gentleness. Hence there arose the common saying: "A man though born like a wolf may, it is feared, become a weak monstrosity; a woman though born like a mouse may, it is feared, become a tiger."
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