Each side seemed to have such a lot to say for itself.

Then it dawned upon me that the only way out of the dilemma was to combine both ideals--that of the savage woman in skins and the lady professor in spectacles.

That is what, allowing for the difference of sex, a man does.

Why shouldn't a woman?
The woman, of course, has to droop a bit more to the savage, because she has to produce the babies and suckle them, and so forth, and a man hasn't.

That was my philosophy of life when I entered the world as a young woman.