indocility

Updated: June 18, 2025

If her husband be dissolute, she must expostulate with him, but never either render her countenance frightful or her accents repulsive, which can only result in completely alienating her husband from her, and making her intolerable in his eyes." "The five worst maladies that afflict the female mind are indocility, discontent, slander, jealousy, and silliness.

Sidney Lewis Gulick - Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic

A woman should look on her husband as if he were Heaven itself and never weary of thinking how she may yield to her husband, and thus escape celestial castigation." Similarly, in the "Greater Learning for Women" it is declared: "The five worst maladies that afflict the female mind are indocility, discontent, slander, jealousy and silliness.

Clarence Hamilton Poe - Where Half The World Is Waking Up : The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions