Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.