Anyway, there is an essential difference in gender that isn't politically correct to mention these days. Women are the ones to bear the children after all. They are the ones to nurse. They are the ones, traditionally, who care for the infants. That takes a huge amount of time.' He smiled, waiting for the applause, but something had gone wrong. There was a cold silence from the crowd..' Did you just say that women aren't creative geniuses because they have babies?'' No, " he said, 'No. Not because. I wouldn't say that. I love women, and not all women have babies. My wife, for one, at least not yet. But listen, we're all given a finite amount of creativity, just like we;re given a finite amount of life, and if a woman continues to spend hers creating actual life and not imaginary life, that's a glorious choice. When a woman has a baby, she's creating so much more than just a world on the page, she's creating life itself, not just a simulacrum. No matter what Shakespeare did, it's so much less than your average illiterate woman of his age who had babies. Those babies were our ancestors, necessary to make everyone here today, and no one could seriously argue that any play is worth a single human wife. I mean the history of the stage supports me here. If women have historically demonstrated less creative genius than men, it's because they're making their creations internal, spending the energies on life itself. It's a kind of bodily genius. You can't tell me that isn't at least as worthy as genius of imagination. I think we can all agree that women are just as good as men, better in many ways. But the reason for the disparity in creation, is because women have turned their creative energies inward not outward. Lauren Groff
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The quote above was said by the actor and actor-director, Kevin Spacey. It made many people feel that it had sexist tone and that Kevin was not being fair to women. However, there is so much wisdom in those few words. We all know women are good mothers and they are good at caring for their children.

What we don't know is that for centuries, women have been more creative than men. For example, the first drafts of novels were written by women, and they were written on a typewriter on a daily basis for years! The reason we don't know this is because men have been reluctant to let women be creative and stand out on their own. They didn't want them to be seen as competition and that's why the first drafts of novels were written by women even though they would eventually be passed over to male writers.

To them it wasn't fair for a woman to take credit for something she didn't do herself especially when she was getting paid the same amount as the male writer. It's about time we let women express themselves!

Source: Fates And Furies

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