“When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.” MenWorldWritingChildrenHas BeensArtRealWholeJoyArtistUniverseBornReligiousLove IsSubjectsPaintingBirthArt IsWhole WorldImpulseNon Religious Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.” SelfLove IsStruggleSubjectsObjectsVictoryGainsSlaveDefeatPossessionSovereignDualityReciprocityContemplativeCaressSeparateness Book:The Second Sex Source: The Second Sex
“Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching.” NeedsShouldPersonsFormHumanityLove IsGrowingTeachingChildhoodSubjectsCommunicationCoreSupremeAgentsDevelopingHierarchyCurriculumEarly ChildhoodNeed Love Author:Ashley Montagu