Egoistic humans leaning to self-development can inspire and problem-solve and whatever else.

Moralistic fervor finds safe targets.

Struggle we understand of course also in non-Darwinian terms.

…we could not know perversions or exaggerations.

…the earth became less mother and more planet and geography.

Her fierce boldness makes for joyous reading.

Disciplined study was shunned and raised eyebrows.

If it wrecked the women’s lives, we don’t learn about it.