“Stop the rhetoric that a woman is crazy or difficult. Gossip well. If a man says a woman is crazy or difficult, ask him, ‘What bad thing did you do to her?’ That’s a code word. He is trying to discredit her reputation.”
“Achievements can bring you satisfaction but not happiness.”
Source: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
“It took some time to make clear to those three sweet-faced women the process which robs the cow of her calf, and the calf of its true food; and the talk led us to further discussion of the meat business. They heard it out, looking very white, and presently begged to be excused.”
Source: Herland
“It should come as no surprise that women need to work doubly hard to prove their right to power. They have to look to their menfolk around them who can support their claim, rather than detract from it--to their fathers and patriarchs, not to their husbands and lovers. They must clarify to a suspicious public that they are not greedy and conniving, power-hungry for their own sakes, but concerned for the success of a broad swath of society. How does one do that except by somehow downplaying their own ambition, or subsuming her power to that of a male associate, or allowing herself to be interrupted in important meetings, or apologizing more than her male counterparts, or appearing more tentative in her decision-making, or not applying for positions and promotions she might think she isn't qualified for? A woman is rarely congratulated for grasping for more, for reaching higher. Women know exactly how their ambition is perceived by the public, and they must veil their power grabs in a warm and cuddly swath of nonaggression and nonthreatening verbiage, dazzling smiles, colored hair, and a calm and steady gaze, maternal even, without holding their head too high, but not too low either. Is it any surprise that today's women don't even apply for political position of authority if they have to walk through a gauntlet of abuse dissecting their appearance, demeanor, age, weight, and sexual past white simultaneously walking a tightrope of unspoken demands for masculinization?”
Source: When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
“Onlar kusursuz kızlar," dediğini duyardım sık sık. "Her erkek onlarla mutlu olur, çünkü acı çekmek için yetiştirilmişler.”
Source: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“Just as modern science has created novel vaccines and drugs to eliminate many "natural diseases", with enough knowledge we can create personal, social, and legal environments that curtail or suppress the components of male psychology that contribute to sexual coercion.”
Source: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
“It is a source of power to recognize that women hold the reins in this evolutionary equation, and their mate selections, in principle, have the power to undermine male control and create greater equality between the sexes.”
Source: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
“One way to curtail men's proprietary mindset is to empower women -a trend that started with first-wave feminists who ushered in women's right to vote and continues today with women's increasing access to their own resources.”
Source: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
“However, this does not make The Handmaid’s Tale a “feminist dystopia” except insofar as giving a woman a voice and an inner life will always be considered “feminist” by those who think women ought not to have these things. (Scientific Romancing)”
Source: Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
“எந்தக் கொள்கையும் எக்காலத்தும், எல்லாத் தேசத்திற்கும், எல்லோருக்கும் சவுகரியமாயிருக்குமென்றும் கருதி, கண்மூடித்தனமாய், குரங்குப் பிடிவாதமாய்ப் பின்பற்றக் கூடாது”
Source: பெண் ஏன் அடிமையானாள்?