Fantasia Of The Unconscious by D H Lawrence Chapter 15 Page 34

you’ve got to stand for some deep purpose. It’s no good faking one up. You won’t take a woman in, not really. Even when she chooses to be taken in, for prettiness’ sake, it won’t do you any good.

But combat her. Combat her in her sexual pertinacity, and in her secret glory or arrogance in the sexual goal. Combat her in her cock-sure belief that she “knows” and that she is “right.” Take it all out of her. Make her yield once more to the male leadership: if you’ve got anywhere to lead to. If you haven’t, best leave the woman alone; she has one goal of her own, anyhow, and it’s better than your nullity and emptiness.

You’ve got to take a new resolution into your soul, and break off from the old way. You’ve got to know that you’re