I think he found the friendship too insipid and
was glad to be out of it. All these men were a trifle feminine in
characteristics, and two played no games. I thought it odd that
they should all express admiration for the very boyish qualities
in me that other people disliked. A fourth man, something of the
same type, told another friend that he always felt surprised at
how freely he was able to talk to me, but that he never could
feel that I was a woman. Two of these were brilliantly clever
men; two were artists.
"At the same period, or earlier, I made a number of women
friends, and of course saw more of them. I chose out some and
some chose me; I think I attracted them as much as, or even more
than, they attracted me. I do not quite remember if this was so,
though I can say for certain that it was so at school. There were
three or four bright, clever, young women whom I got to know then
with whom I was great friends. We were interested in books,
social theories, politics, art. Sometimes I visited them or we
went on exploring expeditions to many country places or towns.
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