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Traditionally In American Society, Men Have Been Trained For Both Competition And Teamwork Through Sports, While Women Have Been Reared To Merge Their Welfare With That Of The Family, With Fewer Opportunities For Either Independence Or Other Team Identifications, And Fewer Challenges To Direct Competition. In Effect, Women Have Been Circumscribed Within That Unit Where The Benefit Of One Is Most Easily Believed To Be The Benefit Of All.

Monotony And Repetition Are Characteristic Of Many Parts Of Life, But These Do Not Become Sources Of Conscious Discomfort Until Novelty And Entertainment Are Built Up As Positive Experiences.

Of Any Stopping Place In Life, It Is Good To Ask Whether It Will Be A Good Place From Which To Go On As Well As A Good Place To Remain.

Goals Too Clearly Defined Can Become Blinkers.

When Any Relationship Is Characterized By Difference, Particularly A Disparity In Power, There Remains A Tendency To Model It On The Parent-child-relationship. Even Protectiveness And Benevolence Toward The Poor, Toward Minorities, And Especially Toward Women Have Involved Equating Them With Children.