Virtues come in pairs in a virtue set, and in some sense opposite pairs.  Boldness and prudence.  Thrift and magnanimity.  Risk and restraint.  Mercy and judgment.  Time and eternity.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest

-thus Joseph Smith

But the truest virtues seem to be the union of the pair.

Virility and Chastity combine in achievement, marriage, offspring, family.

So does the womanly version.  It is fitting that the highest expressions of male and female sexuality are in combination with each other.

Except Achievement isn’t exactly the right word or meaning for women, though I insist that there is a feminine version of it, its just that we lack the word and even the concept.  Spitballin’, I might say its something like keeping up the infrastructure of daily life but also adding light and grace to it, but this is just off the top of my head.  I am by no means a feminist and not going to be, but it is odd and I think a bit damning that American culture and Western civilization lack a clear concept to correspond to virility and achievement.

Part 1 is here.