[T]hat moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of nig...ht neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty. It is then that the plight of being alive becomes attenuated to its least possible dimensions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Major sex differences in intellectual function seem to lie in patterns of ability rather than in overall level of intelligence (IQ...).... Men, on average, perform better than women on certain spatial tasks. In particular, men have an advantage in tests that require the subject to imagine rotating an object or manipulating it in some other way. They outperform women in mathematical reasoning tests and in navigating their way through a route. Further, men are more accurate in tests of target-directed motor skills--that is, in guiding or intercepting projectiles. Women tend to be better than men at rapidly identifying matching items, a skill called perceptual speed. They have greater verbal fluency, including the ability to find words that begin with a specific letter or fulfill some other constraint. Women also outperform men in arithmetic calculation and in recalling landmarks from a route. Moreover, women are faster at certain precision manual tasks, such as placing pegs in designated holes on a board.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To me the "female principle" is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule b...y custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivab...ale encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no preciser name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, part...ake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere,... I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his primeLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to conven...tion, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You must train the children to their studies in a playful manner, and without any air of constraint, with the further object of di...scerning more readily the natural bent of their respective characters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than a...nywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »