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IS PLATONIC FRIENDSHIP POSSIBLE TO AN ATTRACTIVE WOMAN?

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IS PLATONIC FRIENDSHIP POSSIBLE TO AN ATTRACTIVE WOMAN?

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In telling the truth about my life and my innermost feelings I must quote passages from my diary that were written in a light and often flippant spirit, that being my mood at the time; but the lesson is there just the same and in many instances tears follow close behind[Pg 225] the laughter. Furthermore, I thank God that my regeneration has not taken away my sense of humor. One of the great troubles with neurasthenic women is that they do not laugh enough. I wrote the following about a year after my husband’s death: “We women are irrational creatures. Our emotions control us, and these emotions change from day to day, from hour to hour. We never know how we will act under any given circumstances—that may depend upon some man.” The truth is that the attraction which draws a man and a woman together in what they call platonic friendship always has something of the physical in it—on one side or the other. Or on both sides. Women will not admit this, but it is true. They talk about the int

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