[Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. Lawrence]@TWC D-Link bookFantasia of the Unconscious CHAPTER VIII 44/47
But that doesn't mean that the north pole has become the south pole, or that each is a bit of both. Of course a woman should stick to her own natural emotional positivity.
But then man must stick to his own positivity of _being_, of action, _disinterested, non-domestic, male_ action, which is not devoted to the increase of the female.
Once man vacates his camp of sincere, passionate positivity in disinterested being, his supreme responsibility to fulfill his own profoundest impulses, with reference to none but God or his own soul, not taking woman into count at all, in this primary responsibility to his own deepest soul; once man vacates this strong citadel of his own genuine, not spurious, divinity; then in comes woman, picks up the scepter and begins to conduct a rag-time band. Man remains man, however he may put on wistfulness and tenderness like petticoats, and sensibilities like pearl ornaments.
Your sensitive little big-eyed boy, so much more gentle and loving than his harder sister, is male for all that, believe me.
Perhaps evilly male, so mothers may learn to their cost: and wives still more. Of course there should be a great balance between the sexes.
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