4 Quotes & Sayings By Rosalind Coward

Rosalind Coward was born in 1905 and educated at the North London Collegiate School. She then studied at Cambridge University from 1925 to 1929 where she became a member of the Girton College Dramatic Society. In 1931 she moved to Paris where she met her future husband, actor Laurence Olivier. They married in 1936 and had two children, Amanda and David Read more

She started writing plays for the stage in 1938 and had two plays performed at the Hampstead Theatre Club, a first for a woman playwright. In 1942 Coward published her first novel, The Painted Veil, which was a best-seller. In 1947 she turned her attention to poetry and began publishing books of that genre.

Rosalind Coward died on May 14, 1977 from cancer that was diagnosed shortly after the publication of her last book of poetry, Going Out on a Limb.

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Womanism is feminism's vulgate. It asserts that women are the oppressed or the victims and never the collaborators in the 'bad' things that men do. It entails a double standard around sexuality where women's sexual self-expression is seen as necessary and even desirable, but men's is seen as dangerous or even disgusting. Womanism is by no means confined to a tiny, politically motivated bunch of man-hating feminists, but is a regular feature of mainstream culture. . Rosalind Coward
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The old 'qualities' of masculinity - a narrow focus on life, domestic incompetence signalling a mind on higher things, emotional reserve and acts of endurance - have become absurdities, signs more of incompetence, insensitivity, lack of intelligence than of strength. Rosalind Coward
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One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people's experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women. Rosalind Coward