This is not to denigrate physical muscularity, but to underscore the failings of relying upon larger muscles straining at a task for a limited period of time. The contemporary world demands not such musculature, but rather sustained use of the well exercised human brain, working out by resolving inter-related global problems one small effective solution at a time, and understanding that solutions may be fluid and require repeated patient focused attention. Not all significant problems will stay "fixed" by brute strength.

It is a law of physics that every action results in an equal and opposite reaction.

Heroic women, whom Mansfield sees as difficult to find and define in accord with his success model, would be warrior women. Elizabeth I, Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meier might win his grudging approval.

Womanly women do not want to be manly. Nor do they need to be manly. They are equally powerful, a thought that appears to frighten Professor Mansfield into concerns about gender neutrality as the ruination of American culture and society.

Models of heroic women include Jackie Joyner Kersee, an athlete's athlete, admired by all. Rosa Parks and JoAnn Robinson, who knowingly volunteered to launch the Civil Right's Movement. Lucretia Mott and Alice Paul, both Quakers, led the Women's Suffrage Movement and endured physical and mental torture in the process. Who would deny the courage of Florence Nightingale, or all the battlefield nurses who have followed in her footsteps? Who would not recognize the leadership of Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland, using her office to uphold human rights and wage peace, not only for war-torn Ireland, but on behalf of all those in conflict situations around the world. In fact, her rival for the office said later that she made a much better President than he ever would have. There is the contemporary courage of Christiane Amanpour, reported to be the highest paid journalist in the world, not merely for her interviewing skills and news sense, but for her courage in covering some of the most dangerous places on earth and getting at the root causes of human conflict.