General Defense of the Honorable Women's Craft

mother from whom they departed. If the human soul itself, as a guest, does not rest, and struggles daily to be released from the bonds of the flesh in order to unite with God, its highest essence. Why should woman stand at rest, she who was taken from the rib of the first human, and who therefore, as a limb, must surely strive to unite with its body, according to the divine command itself? What God has joined together. Therefore, upon whom does this daily injury remain but upon yourself? As long as you do not unite yourself with her, and fulfill the commandment that two shall become one flesh.

You speak of a house-storm!

And this honorable title you can, according to my understanding, quite rightly attribute to woman. For the Creator himself commanded his first rational