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Gerturde Stein who lived with her faithful Alice
Toklas,
S. de Beauvoir of course who refused
marriage to keep time for herself and Marguerite
Yourcenar
, the 1st wmn allowed to set foot
in our French Academy. Never married, had
a faithful girl friend at her side … etc etc
Male Artists have always had female servants
wives or Muses the 3 inane usually, devoted to their Art.
Unfortunately, the word Muse has no masc
and husbands very rarely care to become Muses !

In most of the cases in the past wmn
gifted wmn had to choose between their
creatuve ambition and a so called normal
family life. (biography of For example Clara Schuman
Alma Mahler, Fanny Mendelson, Alice James
and all those who spent their life in the back
yard of a great man, father, brother or husband.
Such a submissiveness, such a self-denial that
was going to be reinforced by someone
that a famous feminist called "A calamity for
womanhood
: I mean FREUD". He condem
ned relentlessly any woman who had a
personal ambition: "the longing to succeed,
or the wish for activity is neurotic for a wmn,
and it is advisable to give them medical attention."

(of course ambition was related to penis envy !)
Gifted women, who wanted to do something
with themselves, were considered as sick.

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