“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: you are creative, but you are a male—and one part of you considered creativity a feminine-like characteristic. If it were tied to money-making, as it once was, then painting became also power-making, and hence acceptable to your American malehood; and I am quite aware of the fact that both of you were, by the standards of your times, quite liberal, more the pity. You would not take your art to the marketplace after you left commercial work, because then, in a manner of speaking now, understand, you considered that the act of a prostitute, for your “feminine feelings” that you felt produced the painting would then be sold for the sake of “the male’s role as provider and bringer of power.”

(She laughed. “You are so strange,” she said. “Here you won’t go to the marketplace, but you think of saving all of these private sessions for posterity, to give them to the world. You’re very close-mouthed: you don’t blab our personal business, as you put it, but you’d do that.... Instead, I see us when I’m 80 and you’re 90, out in the backyard, burning it all.”