Women, believed Florida Scott-Maxwell, ought to be true to their feelings rather than to men’s:
But men so often do not know what they feel, are afraid to face their feeling, and when woman dares not be true to what she feels, thinking that for safety’s sake she must mirror the man’s feeling, then feeling as true assessment is unowned and absent. The resulting confusion is constant enough to make both men and women despair; for if we do not feel what happens to us, we have not lived our own experience. We have not been ourselves. (Quoted from page 23 of Women and Sometimes Men, by Florida Scott-Maxwell. 1957. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.)
Florida Pier Scott-Maxwell (1883-1979) was a writer, playwright, suffragist, and psychologist who studied with Carl Jung in Scotland and England.
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