“‘Better is it’ she thought, ‘to be clothed with poverty and ignorance, which are the dark garments of the female sex; better to leave the rule and discipline of the world to others; better be wuit of martial ambition, the love of power, and all the other manly desires if so one can more fully enjoy the most exalted raptures known to the human spirit, which are contemplation, solitude, love,’

at times, an unfortunate impression of the gender binary, but so much more often an excellent sense of feminine and masculine energies in tow of one’s character