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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: predatory than the male. Among birds-of-prey, where also the female form
is larger and stronger than the male, the psychic differences seem very
small. Among eagles and other allied forms, which are strictly monogamous,
the affection of the female for the male is so great that she is said never
to mate again if the male dies, and both watch over and care for the young
with extreme solicitude. The ostrich male form, though perhaps larger than
the female, shares with her the labour of hatching the eggs, relieving the
hen of her duty at a fixed hour daily: and his care for the young when
hatched is as tender as hers. Among song-birds, in which the male and
female forms are so alike as sometimes to be indistinguishable, and which
are also monogamous, the male and female forms not only exhibit the same
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