Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture really isn’t offering us all of these options — there still are very strong pressures to conform. We have to step outside the culture to be able to make choices that will really give us what we want. But we lack the psychic mechanisms to do this, to really choose. . Dalma Heyn
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We can not be who we want to be if we are not allowed to choose. Women have been conditioned to believe that they should not want what they really want because there is always something or someone that will tell them that they should do otherwise. This mentality creates a victim mentality because it causes the women to believe that what they want is impossible and unworthy of them. Women will never achieve their full potential if they always believe that their wants are not important. It is important for women to stand up and remove any and all expectations from themselves so that they can decide what they want for themselves and be able to pursue those wants with complete confidence.

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