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WOMEN ... Truly amaze me ... they possess the super-human strength to birth a child - one of the most painful and demanding physical and emotional feats of end- urance known to our species - yet they have the self-confidence to be meek and tender, with the gentle and sweet fortitude needed for motherhood ... They have the extraordinary insight to look into your eyes and know what you're feeling ... they can be completely confident in who they are, and yet totally vulnerable in who they want to be ... they can have the strength of ten men in bearing young, and the sexuality to bring a hundred men to their knees ... They are at one moment the most simple creatures in their need for love and attention, and at the next so complicated that they are unfathomable ... they can be the most loving and accepting people you've ever known, or the most frighteningly fierce and fiery and formidable foes that is humanly imaginable ... They can lay bare their soul before you and give it up with passion, or build walls so strong that nothing but time can bring them down ... they can let you believe, in their confidence, that you are the strong- est being alive, in their adoration, or remind you that the very fires of Hell are at their beck-and-call ... They are EACH and ALL an amazing creation of utter imperfect perfection and grace, and like brittle snow- flakes, uniquely wondrous and different in every way, at one moment a mystery beyond comprehension, and at the next, the most delightfully familiar soul you've ever encountered, in dream or lucid waking ... Their tears flow as freely as their laughter, and they are as spiritual as they are sensible ... they measure their own elegance by how they feel INSIDE, about themselves. They are all at once outspoken and yet demure ... they may need to be held and told that everything will be alright in the world's good time ... They may need to take the lead and be honored ... they may want to hear about your wildest dreams, or need you to really LISTEN to how they feel ... they may want YOU to take control and show them your deepest desires, or they may need to have their every wish fulfilled, from their perspective ... They may want you to be endlessly mysterious, then lay bare your broken spirit on the altar of their passion. A woman may want to look perfect, with every hair and detail in place, or she may run wild through the rain ... she may share the fires of her deepest lust and desires, or make you feel the cold of her wrath ... She may want you to be firm and forward, and then desire only tenderness and care ... she may cry at your funniest joke, or laugh at your saddest story, and ex- pect you to understand. She may howl at the moon in madness, yet require you to keep her sane. She may endear you with ferocity, or scare you with kindness. She may love you more in her anger than she ever could in her joy, or adore you for your carelessness, yet despise you for your attention. A woman is the perfect vessel and the ultimate contradiction, on the pedestal one moment, and at your feet the next ... their bodies are warm and cold, yet salty and sweet ... Rough and smooth, with hidden wonders and re- sponses all their own, first trembling at your lightest touch, then needing the firm press of flesh, every soft inch a sublime adventure, every subtle curve a joy ... but their minds are as keen as any sword, and as honed and sharp-dged as any razor ... They can cut you with their words and their stare and leave you bleeding ... they are elation and anger, vigor and vulnerability, coyness and carnality ... in a moment they can drag you through hell, or carry you sublimely to heaven ... they can be an angel or demon, mother or daughter, maiden or mistress, temptress or torturer ... They can make you the king of their heart, or remind you of your absolute insignificance ... they are told from birth that they are inferior to men - weaker and softer, more fragile - yet despite that they are more determined, more durable, more wise, more diligent, more deft, more caring and tenacious, more intuitive ... They are hard-working, they are as insightful and as sensible as most three men put together ... they can be great moms or be great boxers ... they can be successful professionals or stay-at-home wives, they can do most jobs as well as any man, and do a hundred other things that many men are never even taught ... They can teach, fight, love, paint, play drums, be weightlifters, ballerinas, truck drivers, nurses, army sergeants, cooks, seamstresses, basketball players or coaches, florists or pharmacists, doctors or lawyers ... women can wear dresses or work pants, they can wear toe shoes or hockey skates, ponytails or hard hats ... They can wear steel-toed boots or stilettos, they can wear overalls or miniskirts, (and make them ALL look better than a man EVER did) ... I personally believe that one of the primary reasons that they have been marginalized for so many centuries, is that men knew that if women ever DID start doing the things that men have always done, everyone would find out that women are BETTER at 99% of those things, and would start demanding equal pay and equal rights! That exact thing is starting to come to pass, and I think it scares many men ... women are told their whole lives what they CAN'T do, yet they spend their whole lives doing things that many men are incapable of, things that most men don't care or want or have to do ... men are into making a living, yet women are what we live FOR ... Women have forever lived in the shadow of men, but men would HAVE no shadow without the sunlight that women shine on our lives ... if Woman really WAS made after man, (as some religions teach), it's because the Creator didn't get human beings right the first time, and perfected the species with the female version ... And most of all, no matter how much you learn about them, or how much you may know of all these things I've touched on here, or how much you listen and absorb what they tell you about themselves, you'll never, ever, EVER, understand them ... yet there is absolutely NO- THING in Heaven or on earth, that is as wonderful ... Nothing as sexy and sublime, as entertaining or enticing, as intently intense, or as imperfectly perfect, as ... WOMEN.
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