In a
carriage her bearing is peculiar and unlike that habitual with
women. Seated in the middle of the double seat, her knees being
crossed or else the legs well separated, with a virile air and
careless easy movements she turns her head in every direction,
finding an acquaintance here and there with her eye, saluting men
and women with a large gesture of the hand as a business man
would. In conversation her pose is similar; she gesticulates
much, is vivacious in speech, with much power of mimicry, and
while talking she arches the inner angles of her eyebrow, making
vertical wrinkles at the center of her forehead. Her laugh is
open and explosive and uncovers her white rows of teeth. With men
she is on terms of careless equality." ("Inversione congenita
dell'istinto sessuale in una donna," _L'Anomalo_, February,
1889.)
"The inverted woman," Hirschfeld truly remarks (_Die
Homosexualitaet_, p. 158), "is more full of life, of enterprise,
of practical energy, more aggressive, more heroic, more apt for
adventure, than either the heterosexual woman or the homosexual
man.
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