Composure and self-restraint were not only desirable characteristics in a woman, they were essental. As my mother put it later, it was bad enough having to worry yourself sick every time your husband went up in an airplane; now, she was being told, she was also supposed to feel responsible if his plane crashed. Anger and discontent, lest they kill, were to be kept to oneself. The military, even more so than the rest of society, clearly put a premium on well-behaved, genteel, and even-tempered women. . Kay Redfield Jamison
The wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who...
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Bell Hooks
Playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. Noone can be any one thing all the time.
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Portia De Rossi
You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-"" I think as a human being, " she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to.
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Tamora Pierce
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
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Margaret Thatcher
A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.
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Liu Cixin
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Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
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