The Intelligence of Woman

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Walter Lionel George. The Intelligence of Woman

The Intelligence of Woman

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FEMINIST INTENTIONS

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UNIFORMS FOR WOMEN

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WOMAN AND THE PAINT POT

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THE DOWNFALL OF THE HOME

THE DAY OF A REALLY NICE ENGLISHWOMAN

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THE BREAK-UP OF THE FAMILY

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SOME NOTES ON MARRIAGE

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FOOTNOTES

THE STRANGERS' WEDDING

THE SECOND BLOOMING

THE LITTLE BELOVED

UNTIL THE DAY BREAK

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Walter Lionel George

Published by Good Press, 2019

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A quality which singularly contrasts with woman's vague idealism is the accuracy she displays in business. This is due to her being fundamentally inaccurate. It is not the accurate people who are always accurate; it is the inaccurate people on their guard.[3] Woman's interest in the particular predisposes her to the exact, for accuracy may be defined as a continuous interest in the particular. I suspect that it indicates a probability that by education, and especially encouragement, woman may develop a far higher degree of concentration than she has hitherto done. In her way stands a fatal facility, that of grasping ideas before they are half-expressed. It is a quality of imagination, natural rather than induced. Any schoolteacher will confirm the statement that in a mixed class, aged eleven to twelve, the essays of the girls are better than those of the boys. This is not so in a mixed university. I suspect that this latter is quite as much due to the academic judgment, which does not recognize imagination, as to the fact that in the later years of their lives the energies of girls are diverted from intellectual concentration (and also expression) toward the artistic and the social. This untrained concentration produces a certain superficiality and an impetuousness which harmonize with the intrusion of side issues—to which I have referred—and with the burgeoning of side issues on the general idea.

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