At first it may seem like an assault against your good senses to think
of adult women as mere children or teenagers. How could they be? They go
through life and mature just like men do, don’t they? Once they are
thirty or forty, don’t they behave as adults just as thirty or forty
year old men do? Actually, there is much evidence to the contrary.
Perhaps men are so keen to believe that women mature the same as them
(throughout their entire lives) because in the early stages of our
lives, females do actually mature faster than males.
”The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower is it
in reaching maturity. Man reaches the maturity of his reasoning and
mental faculties scarcely before he is eight and twenty; woman when she
is eighteen; but hers is a reason of very narrow limitations. This is
why women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what
is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing
for reality, and prefer trifling things to the most important.” -- Arthur Schopenhauer, On Women (1851)
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