Tao Te Ching

“He must have pitied [men] in order to have created woman and favored her with such grace that she leads us to paradise along the surest and shortest of roads. Woman is more powerful than prayer, fasting, and—forgive me, Lord—even than virtue.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis 1883 – 1957 CE via P. A. Bien
from Report to Greco