The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in which thus far they have most distinguished themselves. This contains a warning against too precipitate conclusions about the intellectual life of woman.
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.