Creative Genius

Creative Genius

Clayton Blackshear

PHL/458

January 24, 2016

Creative Genius

        Creativity is a remarkable and unique quality to have. Everyone has the ability to be creative, but it is a matter of opening your mind to that power. There are many creative geniuses throughout the world. Many have made a difference in our society and in the lives of millions. The individuals that I have chosen to write about have spoken to my life and inner creative genius. Dalma Heyn and Grace Hopper were extraordinary women who faced a critical, male dominated world and let their creative minds overcome problems and diversity to reach their dreams.

Dalma Heyn

        Bestselling author Dalma Heyn has made the list of creative genius for a very good reason. She has tackled topics that are considered taboo for most. Her writings include books such as The Erotic Silence of The American Wife, Marriage Shock: The Transformation of Women into Wives; Drama Kings: The Men Who Drive Strong Women Crazy, and most recently, A Godsend: A Love Story For Grownups (Dalma Heyn, 2014). Heyn sought out to write about her own thoughts and experiences in areas that most people would not talk about, without being judged for their thoughts. Heyn spends her time as a psychotherapist helping women develop intimate relationships without losing themselves in the process.

        Dalma Heyn grew up in New York with very successful parents. She came by writing honestly, her father was the founding editor of Modern Science and Sports Magazine. She attended college and started her writing career shortly after that. When she worked for McCall’s magazine is when she became engulfed in inspired by women’s issues. She decided shortly after that to pursue writing fulltime. While writing full-time she began to write as a columnist, talking openly with women about their sex lives.  She wrote with two separate companies, and women all around the country wrote to her for advice and to vent their frustrations. `Through her writing she discovered that many women were struggling with their marriages, and she has spent a lot of her time and most of her writing are to help women to better deal with those struggles. Women discussing their marital problems outside of the home is something that socially was not done very often.

        Heyn began to delve into the world of the things that went wrong in marriages and relationships from a woman’s point of view. Her research was done with actual women experiencing problems and looking for ways to solve them and not just people who were considered experts on women topics. There are some individuals that criticized her work and stated that the things she wrote were unfounded. Lye writes “this is where the argument falls apart. Heyn offers no evidence that men really are turned off by perfect wives, and ignores the mountain of evidence showing that men like wives who work full-time and do all the housework” (Lye, 1997). Heyn faced many critics and naysayers to her ideas and way of thinking but still chooses to help women find themselves again after marriage. Her work has been called "revolutionary" for investigating the deepest places in our culture and our psyches, and for telling the truth about women’s experience by reporting their own words-- rather than reporting on how women are interpreted or judged (Dalma Heyn, 2014).