“As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying glass to the first of these four quadrants, the female experience of powerlessness. I saw I was subconsciously making a false assumption: The more deeply I understood women's experience of powerlessness, the more I assumed men had the power women did not have. In fact, what I was understanding was the female experience of male power.” MenYearsFirstsFactsPastUnderstandingTakenSawsFourListeningUnderstoodFemaleTwentiesMalesGlassesAssumptionPowerlessnessMagnifyingMagnifying GlassFalse Assumptions Author:Warren Farrell
“In a sense, sexual harassment lawsuits are just the latest version of the female selection process allowing her to select for men who care enough for her to put their career at risk; who have enough finesse to initiate without becoming a jerk and enough guts to initiate despite a potential lawsuit. In the past, though, the process of his overcoming her barriers was called 'courtship.' Now it is called either 'courtship' or 'sexual harassment'.” MenEnoughCarePastProcessCareersRiskBecomingFemaleOvercomingVersionsDespiteGutsBarriersAllowingWho CaresSelectionSelectJerkHarassmentCourtshipInitiateLawsuitFinesse Author:Warren Farrell
“To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.” MenDreamPastCertainSexJusticePrinciplesCenturyDangerousIntegrityEternalWeaknessBuiltFemaleMalesFeministSexualityDependencePsychicsFemininityProjectionMasochismImbecilityDependabilityUnreliability Author:Elizabeth Gould Davis
“Although the needs of babies have changed very little over the millennia, over the past decades, female equality in education and occupational opportunities has altered maternal expectations. This renders baby-care requirements discordant with ambition for many mothers, and produces heartfelt dilemmas for others.” NeedsLittlesCarePastMotherOpportunityChangedProduceBabyAmbitionExpectationsFemaleDecadesRequirementsDilemmaAlteredOver The PastHeartfelt Author:Joan Raphael-Leff
“In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.” WorldTryingPastMotherHistoryBecomingFemaleArchaeologists Book:Among women Source: Among women
“In the past that you should choose a list of female action superhero movies that haven't worked. I don't believe they haven't worked because they had a female in the lead, I believe they didn't work because they weren't good. They weren't technically well done movies.” ShouldBelieveWellsDoneActionPastI BelieveHavensFemaleDon't BelieveListsSuperheroWell Done Author:Kevin Feige
“A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.” LooksKindPastMusicianFemaleHoningFemale Musicians Author:Weyes Blood
“What's amazing about this show [Westworld], and what it gives us permission to do, is to be kind of superhuman. Because at the end of the day, [Dolores] she's not a male and she's not a female. She's evolved past that. She's a very highly advanced being, and so I think it's really going to knock down a lot of stereotypes and a lot of gender roles and be a neutral party.” ThinkingGivingKindEndsShowsPastPartyRolesFemaleMalesGenderThe End Of The DayBe KindPermissionStereotypeGender RolesSuperhuman Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for women, but I certainly wasn't a female last time.” KnowsLastsPastFemaleLast TimeMy PastRebornPast Life Author:Tenzin Palmo
“My conception around being a woman in 2016 has definitely been shifting over the past year, because I feel like I'm proud of womanhood, and I feel attached to it, and at the same time I'm someone who doesn't believe in having a gender binary, and so often times I separate those two concepts in my mind - the concept of being a woman and the concept of being a girl or being female, being kind of attached to a certain gender identity.” MindBelieveKindPastGirlIdentityProudFemaleGenderBe KindWomanhoodOver The PastBinaryBeing A Girl Author:Amandla Stenberg
“Anyway, this huge Lena Dunham interview in Playboy. It felt like a shifting, of some kind. This new female archetype - this new, powerful, honest, non-pandering kind of female is becoming more powerful than whatever else has been rocking it for the past 10 years. I heard that Hugh Hefner's daughter is taking over. Which, if a woman is running Playboy, something is right.” KindRunningPastPowerfulHonestDaughterFemalePlayboyArchetype Author:Caitlin Rose
“I think magazines like Glamour have the ability to have a great impact. Glamour has the ability to expose them to things like feminism that they may not be well acquainted with. In fact, Glamour has done that in the past - when I was in eighth grade I read an article in Glamour magazine about female feticide and infanticide that actually sparked my entire interest in feminism. I hate it when some feminists say we should get rid of beauty and fashion magazines - I think there's room in feminism for fashion, for fun, for talking about sex and friendships and relationships, etc.” ThinkingDonePastHateFunInterestAbilityFeminismFashionFemaleI HateFeministGlamour Author:Julie Zeilinger
“We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.” ShouldWellsLongShowsPastGivenCompanyDirectorsFemaleMalesDataBoardsUnfortunatePercentagesConstituents Author:Anne M. Mulcahy
“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.” LoveHeartPastExpressionLetting GoCapableFemaleAngerMeaningfulYour PastEmpowering WomenWomen Empowering WomenInspirational WomenCapacity To LoveAnger And ForgivenessAnger And ResentmentAnger ResentmentFamous Women InspirationalPainful PastAnger And BitternessAnger LoveLetting Go Of AngerAnger Inside Book:Are You the One for Me?: Knowing Who's Right and Avoiding Who's Wrong Source: Are You the One for Me?: Knowing Who's Right and Avoiding Who's Wrong
“Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with the same female), we might guess that promiscuous societies were uncommon in the immediate human past.” MenHumansMightPastEvolutionFemaleSpeciesMalesMatesUncommonPromiscuousTesticles Author:Carl Sagan