In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman. - Joseph Hertz

A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be.

In contrast with the simplicity and sublimity of Genesis I, we find all ancient cosmogonies, whether it be the Babylonian or the Phœnician, the Greek or the Roman, alike unrelievedly wild, cruel, even foul.

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.