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Woman loves differently from man. Man is driven by the love of pleasure; woman by the pleasure of love; man has to have his body satisfied; woman has to have her soul satisfied; she loves because of what love does for the enrichment and meaning of her soul. She does not want the great flood tides of feeling breaking over the dam of personality, but the thousand little trickles of the fountain of affection. That is why her love is far more constant than that of man. She is capable of more fidelity than man because by nature her love is less intermittent and also because she is not ready for love until it can mean total and complete dedication.

Fulton John Sheen

1895-1979

Life Is Worth Living (Fifth Series) [1957]

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