Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879 and he died in 1955. He is widely considered one of the greatest physicists of all time. In 1898, Einstein met and fell in love with Mileva Maric, a Serbian classmate. Einstein married Mileva on January 6, 1903. Mileva had a daughter Lieserl, born in January, 1902. Lieserl, at the time, was considered illegitimate because the parents were unwed. Einstein married Mileva on January 6, 1903. Alber Einstein is best known for the theory of relativity, he was also awarded with the Nobel Prize in 1921 in physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. He enjoyed classical music and played the violin. Albert Einstein has been the subject and inspiration for a number of novels, films and plays. Einstein has received a number of posthumous honors. In 1999, he was named Person of the Century.
Gender becomes identity. Identification with gender is encouraged at an early age, and it forces you into a role, into conditioned patterns of behavior that affect all aspects of your life, not just sexuality. It is a role many people become completely trapped in, even more so in some of the traditional societies than in Western culture where identification with gender is beginning to lessen somewhat. In some traditional cultures, the worst fate a woman can have is to be unwed or barren, and for a man to lack sexual potency and not be able to produce children. Life's fulfillment is perceived to be fulfillment of one's gender identity. In the West, it is the physical appearance of the body that contributes greatly to the sense of who you think you are: its strength or weakness, its perceived beauty or ugliness relative to others. For many people, their sense of self-worth is intimately bound up with their physical strength, good looks,