Women in Love

There IS such a thing as two people being in love for the whole of their lives—perhaps. But marriage is neither here nor there, even then.

'Marriage is a social arrangement, I take it, and has nothing to do with the question of love.'

And her he loved with all the great, overweening, sheltering love of a dying man

loved her with intensity

Each admits the different nature in the other

Each has a single, separate being, with its own laws

The man has his pure freedom, the woman hers

There is only the pure duality of polarisation, each one free from any contamination of the other. In each, the individual is primal, sex is subordinate, but perfectly polarised.

childlike, clinging woman to the man

love-and-marriage ideal from its pedestal. We want something broader. I believe in the ADDITIONAL perfect relationship between man and man—additional to marriage