“ The female heart is dissatisfied with the boundaries of law and order which the timid mind is constantly erecting; she wishes to break through routine, cast off the yoke, smash down the middle wall of phenomena and plunge through into the other world, down into the abyss, into God; but the male mind scolds and tells her to be content with what is visible and at hand. ”
 Nikos Kazantzakis, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938). copy citation