Mohan-Mala - Mahatma Gandhi

Mohan-MalaOctober 13Nevertheless there is no doubt that is some point there is bifurcation. Whilstboth are fundamentally one, it is also equally true that in that form there is avital difference between the two. Hence the vocations of the two must also bedifferent. The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of women willalways undertake, requires qualities which man need not, possess. She ispassive, he is active. She is essentially mistress of the house. He is the breadwinner.She is the keeper and distributor of the bread. She is the caretaker inevery sense of the term.Ibid.October 14Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She hasthe right to participate in very minutest detail in the activities of man and shehas an equal right of freedom and liberty with him.SW, p. 425October 15Of all the evils which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading,so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity to me, thefemale sex, not the weaker sex. It is the nobler of the two, for it is even todaythe embodiment of sacrifice, silent suffering, humility, faith and knowledge.YI, 15 Sept. 1921October 16Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifices, but unfortunately todayshe does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoyused to say, they are labouring under the hypnotic influence of man. If theywww.mkgandhi.org Page 78