“I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my category.” NamesRolesDestinyFateLabelsCategories Book:Notable American Women Source: Notable American Women
“The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have one user. The nearly 1 million American users of the name Mary, for example, do not constitute a unified army who might slaughter all users of the name Nancy, as was earlier supposed, but rather a saturation of the Mary Potential Quotient. Simply stated: Too many women with the same name produces widespread mediocrity and fatigue.” NamesLanguageLabelsCategoriesMediocrityOriginalityNaming Book:Notable American Women Source: Notable American Women
“When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and to require that she respond as someone quite less than herself.” NamesWomenLabelsControlComplimentsEndearments Book:Notable American Women Source: Notable American Women
