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 reality, and prefers trivialities to the
important subjects.
Why is this so? We have to look to where men and women come from. Man is
reared by his mother as an infant, and becomes lovingly attached to his
mother. It is acceptable for him to remain in love with this mother
figure throughout life, and his development is thus relatively
straightforward. He can be masculine all his life, and has no changes
forced upon him. The woman, however, must undergo a redirection of
loving feelings from the mother towards the father. As a young girl she
is effectively a boy, but she grows feminine.
A woman of thirty has long been fully emotionally developed. There are
no paths open to her for further growth. By contrast, a man retains his
boyishness, and at thirty is still searching for who he is. Perhaps
woman's early maturity is because the difficult development which leads
to femininity
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