Becoming A Woman
It is said that being a man is your testing ground,
or your probation. When you have been a man long enough -
when you have suffered enough through your own foolishness;
when you have inflicted enought pain through the calamities
of your own creation; when you have hurt others enough to
stop your own behaviors - to replace aggresion with reason,
contempt with compassion, always winning with no one losting -
then you may become a woman.
When you have learned that might is not "right";
that strength is not power over, but power with;
that absolute power demands of others absolutely nothing;
when you understand these things, then you may
deserve to wear a woman's body -
for you will at last have understood her Essence.
From "Conversations with God - Book Two"