Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her own thoughts a muddle, they do to her. They use their learning as a hurdle to herd her one way and then the other and then finally trap her in contradictions of which she can make no sense. Philippa Gregory
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In this quote, William Styron speaks about the way in which people use their learning to force a woman into a position that she can’t possibly be in. They use their learning to make a woman doubt her feelings and thoughts because if she does, then she’ll have to accept that she must be doing something wrong. Of course, if a woman knows that she’s not doing anything wrong, then she’s going to feel even more confused or even angry.

Source: The Lady Of The Rivers

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