Now I found an endlessly beautiful undiscovered country to explore, and in it the sweetest wisdom and understanding.

It was as if I had come to some new place and people, with a desire to eat at all hours, and no other interests in particular; and as if my hosts, instead of merely saying, "You shall not eat," had presently aroused in me a lively desire for music, for pictures, for games, for exercise, for playing in the water, for running some ingenious machine; and, in the multitude of my satisfactions, I forgot the one point which was not satisfied, and got along very well until mealtime.
One of the cleverest and most ingenious of these tricks was only clear to me many years after, when we were so wholly at one on this subject that I could laugh at my own predicament then.

It was this: You see, with us, women are kept as different as possible and as feminine as possible.

We men have our own world, with only men in it; we get tired of our ultra-maleness and turn gladly to the ultra-femaleness.

Also, in keeping our women as feminine as possible, we see to it that when we turn to them we find the thing we want always in evidence.