As we look at this sublime work of some thousand years ago, we see a rigid ceramic: terracotta. Yet the lips seem as tender as a mother's lips today. The opposites of hard and soft were made one by the artist. Don't we need to see people are trying to put these opposites together in themselves, to be fair to them? Men have seen women as soft, as comforts against a cold world, but need to see a woman as logical, practical, determined, also, in order to be fair to her. A woman often sees a man as only tough and unfeeling. That he may also.
