The fact that no clarifying definition of Female Genius exists, has contributed to conceptual confusion, smothering the phenomenon of Female Genius. Women staking out their claims in male occupations are she-males, no female geniuses. Female geniuses position themselves in opposition of male predominance, man-made reality, male dogmatism, trying to correct the life-denying artefacts of Homo Faber, measuring them by the dynamics and fullness of life, whose protection they regard as their foremost feminine task, which, perhaps biologically conditioned, has been entrusted to women since primordial times.Genius women did not objectify their creative ideas, as men did.
They cannot boast of inventions nor of constructing systems nor of conceiving ideologies that changed the world for the better or for the worse, perhaps for the simple reason that man did not let them do so. Genius women turn inward find authentic humanity engraved in their female souls, take their pens and create imaginative counter-worlds. The dynamics of life have always got the better of the static artefacts of Homo Faber. Female imaginative creations, originating in Female Understanding and participating in genuine humanity, have resisted decay, because they are timeless.
Genius Women are Timeless Sisters of the Mind. Following Apollinaire, we can go on dreaming of a woman on wings, rising out of mankind, pushing aside male world makers, renewing our man-made reality. Or we dream of male-female cooperation for a humanized world, populated by spirited human beings, on whom Nature continues to lavish her cornucopia of Life.