The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Woman is the symbol to man of the uncleanness of bodily existence, of which he purifies himself by putting her to noble… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Woman has two works to perform: a work of differentiation, of man from herself, and a work of unification, of man with… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures;… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Evil I had never found satisfactorily placeable as an integral element of the universal, or total, content of existence. Indeed, evil is evil just… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift: it is so nearly what would please me I cannot but perfect it” — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning,… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
![“What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.” quote by Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ece/laura-riding-9995_first-love_what-second-love-could-she-olympias-make_3151265.jpg)
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