When men decided women could be educated - this is what I think - they educated them on the male plan; they put them into schools with mottoes and school songs and muddy team games, they made them were collars and ties. It was a way to concede the right to learning, yet remain safe; the products of the system would always be inferior to the original model. Women were forced to imitate men, and bound not to succeed at it. Hilary Mantel
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It is so hard to be born a woman, for society has set you up to fail. Society has made it so that you are not supposed to have the same capability as men, but instead must try to compete. Women are made to feel that they are objects of desire and that they can only be successful if they objectify themselves. The more women try to present themselves as men do, the less successful they are.

They will always have some element of their being that makes them different from men. If women were not made to feel different from men, they would not try to be like them or compete with them. The problem arises when society does not allow for this difference.

When women are told to compete with men, they are forced to compete with them on their own terms instead of the way that should be accepted - that they are different and that requires a different approach.

Source: An Experiment In Love

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