more on our feelings than on reason, there
would not be so much violence in this world. We are led to believe that
reason is the cause of war and violence! But I tell you, reason is only
harmful when it used to justify the feminine in us, the emotions and
feelings. Woman's thought is intuitive and unstructured. Man's thought
is lateral and connected. That is, he is capable of both the intuitive
and the rational. We must not deny him his reason.
I am told that rationality makes one uncaring and cold. Then I must be
truly hateful and icy cold, for there are few more rational than I. Yet
I bring the end of the ice-age!
How a man can become a woman
Spiritual pregnancy produces something like a feminine character in a
man. And just like a pregnant woman he becomes kinder, more patient, and
quite beautiful.
His birthchild is enlightenment.
Solitude
Of what use is independence to a woman, if she is - all alone?
The psychology of men and women
Good things invariably take time. Man hardly reaches the maturity of his
reason and intellectual powers before his twenty-eighth year, woman with
her eighteenth. Thus woman's reason is very circumscribed and usually
remains in a largely juvenile condition. She sees only what is nearest
to her, takes appearances for rea