Outros trechos do
delicado livro de Pearl S. Buck, filha de
um missionário americano que viveu na China muitos
anos.
Your mind is an excellent mind for a woman," Old Gentleman said at last. "I would even say, my daughter, that had your brains been inside the skull of a man, you could have sat for the Imperial Examinations and passed them with honor and become thereby an official in the land. But your brain is not in a man's skull. It is in a woman's skull. A woman's blood infuses it, a woman's heart beats through it, and it is circunscribed by what must be a woman's life. In a woman it is not well for the brain to grow beyond the body."
"This matter of intelligence- it is so great a gift, so heavy a burden. Intelligence, more than poverty and riches, divides human beings and makes them friends or enemies. The stupid person fears and hates the intelligent person. Whatever the goodness of the intelligent man, he must also know that it will not win him love from one whose mind is less than his." (...) Because the first love in a man's heart is the love of self.
"My child", Old Gentleman said, "there is no man who can endure woman's greater wisdom if she lives in his house and sleeps in his bed. He may say he worships her at her shrine but worship is dry fare for daily life. A man cannot make of his house a temple, nor take a goddess for his wife. He is not strong enough."
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