Stein on Apologetics and Asceticism - Connection to Femininity?

From The Significance of Woman's Intrinsic Value in National Life (1928)

"The teacher thus needs a basic education in dogma and asceticism. Apologetics is certainly also good, but the former seems more important to me: ready arguments, as right as they may be, often do not have penetrating force. But she whose soul is formed through the truths of faith - and I call this ascetic formation - finds words which are proper for this human being and for this moment respectively."

Crazy isn't it! That's the first time I've read someone downplay apologetics in favor of the personalization of the message through a soul "formed through the truths of faith" - which to me seems an especially feminine strength! Quite empowering for those of us who cannot memorize the tracts of Augustine and tomes of other scholars, isn't it? :) Now if only we can get to that "ascetic soul formation" part.... hehehe ;)