The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure, it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.
Asking men to cut away their __eminine_ traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress their __asculine_ traits asks them to deny their full autonomy.What makes us human is not one or the other__he fist or the open palm__t__ our ability to embrace both, and choose the appropriate action for the situation we__e in. Because to deny one half__o burn down the world or refuse to defend the world from those who would burn it__s to deny our humanity and become something less than human.
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Asking men to cut away their __eminine_ traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress their __asculine_ traits asks them to deny their full autonomy.What makes us human is not one or the other__he fist or the open palm__t__ our ability to embrace both, and choose the appropriate action for the situation we__e in. Because to deny one half__o burn down the world or refuse to defend the world from those who would burn it__s to deny our humanity and become something less than human.
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