Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

Wendy Shalit
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After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally.

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Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

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A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.

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