Rays of Light

      What makes them slaves is:
(1) Attraction towards the male and his strength,
(2) Desire for home life and its security,
(3) Attachment to motherhood. ...
      Men also have three slaveries:
(1) Spirit of possession, attachment to power and domination,
(2) Desire for sexual relation with women,
(3) Attachment to the small comforts of married life. ...

    Women are not more bound to the vital and material consciousness than men are. On the contrary, as they have not, in general, the arrogant mental pretensions of men, it is easier for them to discover their psychic being and to allow it to guide them. p116-7