Esther & Stencil

[David Payne]

"He’d [Porpentine'd] realized long before that women had no monopoly on what is call intuition; that in most men the facility was latent, only becoming developed or painfully heightened at all in profession like this. But men being positivists and women more dreamy, having hunches still remained at base a feminine talent; so that like it or not they all – Moldweorp, Goodfellow, the pair from Brindisi – had to be part woman." - Under the Rose
 
Bear in mind this was the thoughts of character in--what was it?--1898?

On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 01:21:25 -0400, Michael Bailey (michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com) asked:

> does (should) a feminist automatically bristle at being praised in such terms?
> [...]
> but when it comes to that specific aspect, the notion of "feminine
> intuition" as a thing one can count on encountering in a woman's
> thought process
> and one which is substantially different from logic...
>
> a) is this unique to Adams (I suspect not)?
> [...]