¶ Female
Index Entry
Female:
“The new life comes from the woman. The egg is in the woman, so woman has physical continuity. Man is discontinuous. This has great compatibility with the Universe. Women are innately in tension, and men are in compression. The father tends to specialization. The mother tends to be much more comprehensive than man. Early man was the roving hunter or the fisherman. Woman, staying near the hearth and cave, has been the consolidator of the gains. When man brought in a strange animal, she decided whether to skin it, milk it, or ride it. She is the differentiator. She put the children and prisoners and old to work, pounding, weaving, and so on. She invented industrialization.”
