Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.