She turns to the window and sees a man and a woman getting into a taxi. This sight she finds so immensely attractive, so profoundly soothing, that it reminds her how unnatural it is to think of the sexes as seperate, how natural to think of them as cooperating with one another. And it leads her to speculate that, just as there are two sexes in the natural world, there must be two sexes in the mind, and that is is their union that is responsible for creation.. She recalls Coleridge's idea that a great mind is androgynous: "Coleridge certainly did not mean.... that it is a mind that has any special sympathy with women; a mind that takes up their cause or devotes itself to their interpretation. Perhaps the androgynous mind is resonant and porous; that is transmits emotion without impediment; that it is naturally creative, incandescent and undivided."
Mary Gordon (intr. A Room of One's Own)
