short thought. 1

: feminine things

sugar and spice and all things nice - is that what little girls are made of? what a question. my friend is a big fan of proverbs and quotes, often communicating some nugget of wisdom via text in quotation marks. one of my favourites is as follows:

experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

he was giving me some advice, since i had been berating myself over some mistake earlier in the day. what interested me was that 'experience' was personified as a woman. what is it about experience that implies femininity? is it that we women are wise?! or does it hark back to the loss of innocence - the day that eve ate the forbidden apple and we were all doomed ...