Stunningly beautiful from birth, and never, ever  complemented  for any other  attribute, she was always confident that her power lay in her looks and her ability to flaunt them. Still young, it has never failed to gain her the awed respect of other women, and the absolute obedience of men.  So she has no reason to imagine that this could ever not be true.

Smarter and above all, far more perceptive than most of her peers, she felt more connected with great artists from times past than any men she was able to find around her. So her elevated relationship grew up with art and aesthetic perception. Her frustration lies only in the energy required to navigate around men who either can t recognize her greater gifts, or who can t accept that they are possessed by a woman.

Deprived of the requisite love he knew he deserved as a child, the outcast can never transcend his incurable rage. Instead gestures of care and tenderness only inflame his sense of exemption, making him a kind of free radical subversive bent on destroying any expression of the nurturing he failed to receive, and that all living creatures seem to need the most.

Young or not, the idealist visionary sees his role as a catalyst for social, spiritual, or material transformation and advancement that it is his destiny to fulfill.. His revolutionary ends embody the most elevated of human values and are achieved through noble means and self-sacrifice. The possibility of martyrdom is not only not ruled out, but is probably the most validating consequence a true revolutionary could ever face, because it proves that his goals were not for himself, but genuinely for others.

She was taught that to serve men and raise children selflessly was her only purpose from her earliest memory. She has done this with tireless dedication since she was a child, learning that humility and service are a protection from disappointing expectations And that egotism is a crippling vice best left to men.

He was always a golden boy who’s every gesture could only please his parents, and later everyone else he encountered. Every success came easily, and he was convinced of his own superiority before he finished high school. In business and The Law, he set his own rules and later, in politics, became accustomed to the idea that there are superior beings like himself, who are entitled to privilege, but not bound by the same ethical restraints that are needed to keep ‘the masses’ in line. Over time his self-indulgence has transformed him into a pillar of society who is completely incapable of being honest with himself, let alone anybody else.

She began her adult life with some assumptions that were based on her physical attractiveness but which required drastic revision later on: After a good marriage and 2 kids, her husband became interested in a younger woman. After their divorce, she became a real estate agent and has sought to put in place an economic and emotional infrastructure to replace the one that was lost. Although her own resilience and resourcefulness has surprised herself perhaps more than anyone who knew her, the lesson that being a beautiful young woman wasn t enough to carry her through life has been a harsh one to learn.

He was never the least bit masculine and has been been derided and ridiculed for it from his earliest memories. The outsider role has been as informative as it is painful: he has learned that his attackers are motivated by their own insecurities; so he fights back with reckless insults of his own. His own inevitable self-loathing has also kept him from growing beyond a kind of adolescent self-absorption. So he remains a kind of emotional lightweight, unable to find another person with whom he feels safe enough to explore his own emotional depth.