"And it may be confidently asserted that in no nation of antiquity were women held in so much esteem as amongst the Hi…"

"With woman there can be no lasting friendship: hearts of hyenas are the hearts of women."

"A virtuous wife should constantly serve her husband like a god, even if he behaves badly freely indulges his lust, an…"

"Where women are honoured there the gods delight, where they are not honoured there all acts become fruitless."

"...When her father, or her brother with her father's permission, gives her to someone, she should obey that man while…"

"This is proven by the fact that in the Vedic period their women were not placed apart from men in penetralia, or "Zen…"

"He took the rotundity of the moon, and the curves of creepers, and the clinging of tendrils, and the trembling of gra…"

"to the women of this country... I would say exactly what I say to the men. Believe in India and in our Indian faith. …"

"Nevertheless, despite all this equipment, woman fared poorly in India. Her high status in Vedic days was lost under p…"

"It will seem incredible to the provincial mind that the same people that tolerated such institutions as child marriag…"