Reference

Proverbs 31:10-31 (cf. James 3 and Mark 9)
A Mother Teaches a King

Proverbs 31 is an ancient ode to a virtuous woman that comes with lots of baggage.  Fr. Allen points out that much of this baggage is our "projection onto the text from what we've been taught," and that the text itself is really an ode to egalitarian relationships.  This, he points out, as difficult to enact in the modern world as in the ancient one but we have help!