A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When women talk about their feelings, they're not asking for solutions.
Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
I react to stress badly. I handle it better these days. But I'm a very straightforward person.
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.
Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.