Hi Blazing Star St.Paul is no different to you and me, he also said things he would regret.he was not super human, St.Paul goes to some length to point this out.the "old man" Saul was always lingering like  a thorn in his flesh.St.Paul often wrote in a manner that was not authoritative, as he admits himself to the Corinthians. Yes St.Paul was similar to us a war was waging in his members.he spoke of this "thorn in the flesh" the old Saul breaking out and saying what he formerly believed in under Yahweh where women were to sit back n the Synagogue. As he said he was not yet perfected, but was still running the race, Romans 7 is a process and Corinthians was prior to his heavenly epistles written when he was imprisoned. St.Paul's epistles were written over some period of time, probably a third of his life time, in which great changes were happening in his spiritual life.
So St.Paul's early epistles he was still addressing and dealing with Jewish Christians or Gentile's who had converted to Judaism/proselytes, who still followed Yahweh's commands for women to sit back, a strict Jewish law. This is the Great Controversy of the New Testament, that few realise having created a false Gospel mixing up Judaism and Yahweh with the Good News and the Heavenly Father, see Galatians chapters one and two where eventually St.Paul confronts James, John and Peter. At one stage in the Book of acts Jewish Christians took on an oath to kill Paul.
Not understanding the Gospel to the Circumcision[like women sitting back and Gentiles banned] and St.Paul's Gospel to the Gentiles or Uncircumcision, is still the greatest hindrance to understanding the New Testament. So Today we still have this false Gospel and admixture. this of course caused St.Paul much pain, at one stage almost stoned to death by Yahweh followers, so perhaps that gives some context to St.Paul saying this.