Marta Moldovan-Cywińska: About the intellect

An immense power of reasoning combined with a profound ability to analyze and synthesize, plus extensive horizons. Plus brilliance and the ability to connect seemingly remote facts. These are the qualities that a man whose professional path was combined with a creative mindset would wish to have at his disposal until old age. An indefatigable explorer, seeker, traveler in the lands of experience and concepts. An erudite man, an intellectual, an authority, a master that women long for. To what extent, however, do they try to live up to him?

With intellect - as with a string of pearls is like this: it doesn't matter where you got it from, it matters how you wear it and ... how you wear it. Following this pattern: a lady always reads Heidegger's writings in lace, and the poetry of the Surrealists in an authentic 1920s hat.

Let Choromanski's reading be accompanied by the fumes of “Chanel No. 5”. Paganini's compositions can be listened to in violin-shaped earrings - examples can be multiplied at will if imagination is exploited in tandem with dreams. Without going into private details about the setting of the intellect, I am convinced that a woman can gush with intellect and femininity.

And here is the example of Penelope - Odysseus' wife. For she convinces with her whole self that the ideal woman can be the embodiment of intelligence, generosity and timeless beauty, and, we should add, even sex-appeal, many hundreds of years before the concept itself was created.

Unfortunately, few modern women can appreciate a man's intellect, knowledge, erudition and reading, and humbly ask: “I have no idea - tell me what you know about it”.  - A modest question, but with a lure. Developed emotional intelligence allows you to control the situation - except for dithering silence, possibly half-words, which can give the appearance of depth of thought reaching inside the Mariana Trench. 

Ergo: intellect - in addition to spirituality, faith, goodness, beauty is the essence of humanity.