Sublime

Jan was an outspoken feminist who had, in fact, written numerous articles that critiqued traditional sex roles.

Like wolves, women are sometimes discussed as though only a certain temperament, only a certain restrained appetite, is acceptable. And too often added to that is an attribution of moral goodness or badness according to whether a woman’s size, height, gait, and shape conform to a singular or exclusionary ideal. When women are relegated to moods, ma

Heidegger’s

Her appointment was followed by several others.

“she.” But an implicit connection among these stereotypically “feminine” professions themselves—between “nurse” and “receptionist”—remained.

Il en fut ainsi au début chez Mme de Warens quand elle accueillit à son foyer le jeune Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Elle ne voulait, elle aussi, qu’orienter, diriger, amener un peu à la culture qui était sienne un adolescent gauche et impétueux chez qui bouillonnaient encore les forces primitives.

the New York decorator Elsie de Wolfe, later a friend, would write in her 1913 book The House in Good Taste: “A woman’s environment will speak for her life, whether she likes it or not.”

Feral women of all ages, and especially the young, have a tremendous drive to compensate for long famines and exiles. They are endangered by excessive and mindless striving toward people and goals that are not nurturant, substantive, or enduring. No matter where they live or in what time, there are cages waiting always; too-small lives into which w