“ for the woman bears children in pain, but the man conceives ideas in pain, and it is not for woman to feel the anxiety of doubt or the torment of despair. Not that she stands outside the idea, but she has it at second-hand. Yet because woman clarifies finiteness in this way, she is man’s deepest life, but a life that must be concealed and clandestine as is always the life of the root. ”
 Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1843). copy citation