When men and women are equals they will love no more.

Your highly-cultured women will not be lovable, will not love.
"Do they see nothing, understand nothing?
It is Tant Sannie who buries husbands one after another, and folds her hands resignedly,--'The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord,'-- and she looks for another.

It is the hard-headed, deep thinker who, when the wife who has thought and worked with him goes, can find no rest, and lingers near her till he finds sleep beside her.
"A great soul draws and is drawn with a more fierce intensity than any small one.

By every inch we grow in intellectual height our love strikes down its roots deeper, and spreads out its arms wider.

It is for love's sake yet more than for any other that we look for that new time." She had leaned her head against the stones, and watched with her sad, soft eyes the retreating bird.