I find these distinctions problematic. This is because each can be applied to either men or women. I am not convinced that these distinctions are innate in each gender. For example, there must be many women who fit the "power and presence." And, I'll admit, I'm a man who has many of the characteristics that Berger attributes to women.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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