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Question: The other day you said
that Women create Children, and Men create arts and other
material things. Is it unnatural or neurotic for a woman not to desire a Child, and to
prefer to be an artist? I never wanted to have a child. Dance, music, poetry, theater and painting Were my
passion and expression. Could you comment?
Osho: There is nothing unnatural in
it. If you don't want to have a child, you have the right not to
have one. If you want to put your creativity into painting, into
art, into music, it is perfectly good -- far better than
creating a child who is bound to be a burden on the earth. And
who knows what kind of child will come out of you?
Adolf Hitler can come out of you. He is waiting, searching for a
womb. Joseph Stalin can come out of you. Beware! -- that greasy
Italian, Mussolini, is waiting. All these people are standing in
line, in a queue. This is not the time to give birth to a child!
A painting is harmless. Music is beautiful, dancing will do. No,
there is nothing unnatural
in it. It has been said by men again and again that it is
women's natural duty to give birth to children.
That's how they have been able to keep the woman in slavery,
because if a woman goes on giving birth to children, where is
the time for her to paint? Where is the time for her to create
music, poetry, drama? So on the one hand they have been forcing
the woman to remain continually pregnant. Just a hundred years
ago, every woman around the world was continually pregnant. One
child takes nine months of her life, then she has to raise the
child. And when the child is not even six months old, she is
again pregnant. It is like chain-smoking.
And even a single child is such a nuisance.... I agree with you.
I have been asked many times, "Wouldn't you like to have a
child?" I said, "Me? Either I would kill the child or I would
kill myself; we could not coexist! A child in my room?
Impossible!" Just to be alert, I have never married, because who
knows? -- the woman I marry may want a child. Then trouble will
arise.
There is no problem, unless you feel there is. Don't listen to
anybody, what they say --that it is unnatural. It may be
unnatural to them, so they can give birth to as many children as
they want. If you feel good in painting, in writing poetry, in
composing music, you are giving better children to the world --
children who are harmless, who will make many rejoice.
Related Article: "Love, trust,
beauty, sincerity, truthfulness, authenticity -- these are all
feminine qualities"
"Can you talk further
about the Qualities of the Female Mind?"
"Could you speak of the creative
Female?"
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