feminish

… one can do nothing other than preach freedom, and freedom again, and we must overturn every barrier, smash every artificial bottleneck, for it is wiser to trust in the voices of desire that rise in the human bosom, even when they express themselves in untoward ways, than in pre-conceived and falsified theories. Whatever brings splendour and joy to a woman is the right way for her, however crooked her path may seem, and in the end the goal is to guide to maturity the woman within, in other words to reveal her most secret gift of life.

Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) The Humanity of Woman: an outline of a problem, France 1899. Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer in A History of Women in the West Vol. IV.

… one can do nothing other than preach freedom, and freedom again, and we must overturn every barrier, smash every artificial bottleneck, for it is wiser to trust in the voices of desire that rise in the human bosom, even when they express themselves in untoward ways, than in pre-conceived and falsified theories. Whatever brings splendour and joy to a woman is the right way for her, however crooked her path may seem, and in the end the goal is to guide to maturity the woman within, in other words to reveal her most secret gift of life.

Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) The Humanity of Woman: an outline of a problem, France 1899. Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer in A History of Women in the West Vol. IV.