Let us start with the quotes that uphold the mysterious power of a woman:
Woman is a beam of the divine Light… she is a Creator, not a creature… she establishes the esoteric sense of knowledge and guides those who attain to it. Through her perfume, we breathe paradise.
– Rumi
In everything relating to the force and energy of love, women should be the sovereigns; it is from them we hope for happiness, and they will never fail to grant us that, as soon as they can govern our hearts with intelligence.
– Lord Saint-Evremond
Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.
–CeeLo Green
And now, a little tongue-in cheek mocking from Coco Chanel:
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
If all the above is true, and a man is “only a child, whilst a woman is a goddess”, then how is it even possible, that a man can break woman’s heart? And yet it happens, every day!
May be it’s because a woman had neglected to wear her crown, whilst being exhausted running this man’s house and looking after his children..? And have forgotten to be his “new shiny toy” that got him attracted, in the first place.
Why the comparison with a toy? If you watch little boys play, you will see how easily they could get distracted when a pretty girl joins the group; but this only lasts a few moments; their attention jumps away as soon as the next excitement happens! A new shiny lorry, or their mate’s joke. The quote below echoes the above.
Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence.
–Lord Byron
Some women, who became disillusioned in love, have learnt to see the value of a man in a different light- “if I am not too important for him, then why should he be, for me?” Again, Lord Byron ascends:
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
-Lord Byron
But human nature is full of contradictions, right?
As Honore demonstrates for us beautifully.
Honore de Balzac’s character, in Harlow’s High and Low, preaches a young man, who is grieving the loss of his mistress “ She is not worth your tears! The best woman always is… the Next woman! “
“It is as absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music.”
– Honore de Balzac