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“Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.”

“I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.”

“Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives.”

Stills Young Feminism Taught Exercise Female Feminist Stuck Ideology Young Women Whining Suffocating Puritanism

Author:Camille Paglia

“Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.”

Source: Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray

“Somehow we have been taught to believe that the experiences of girls and women are not important in the study and understanding ofhuman behavior. If we know men, then we know all of humankind. These prevalent cultural attitudes totally deny the uniqueness of the female experience, limiting the development of girls and women and depriving a needy world of the gifts, talents, and resources our daughters have to offer.”

Source: Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman

“Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.”

Mean Has Beens Stills Eye School Young Cases Teacher Teaching Taught Strange Female Lips Tongue

Author:Lord Byron

“Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where I was taught by nuns and where consciousness of the body was repressed. Yet at the same time, the female body was a highly visible and sensitive site.”

Body School Consciousness Growing Up Growing Taught Particular Periods Female Catholic Sensitive Visible Missionary Site Asia Nun Repressed Female Body Time Periods

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“I did get to shadow some amazing brain surgeons, a female brain surgeon in Toronto, another surgeon in London. And then we had a surgeon onset [of Doctor Strange] every day. So and he taught me to do sutures and was practicing on turkey breasts, raw turkey breasts.”

Brain Taught Strange Shadow Female Doctors London Breasts Turkeys Surgeons Toronto Brain Surgeons

Author:Rachel McAdams

“I was taught from a young age that as a teacher, especially a male, you are to never be alone with a female, or even a male student.”

Age Young Teacher Students Taught Female Males Young Age

Author:Raheem Jarbo

“There's such a grace and understanding in the female persona when women have really come into their own. Part of that is to have children, and to be caring for those children, and not only in the care for them, but also in the nurturing and raising of them, they have to pass on their souls and their intelligence. And all those things can't be taught. It's something that, that in the essence of a woman, the essence of a mother, a mother knows!”

Knows Children Soul Care Mother Understanding Grace Taught Female Essence Caring Persona Nurturing

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“My parents put me in sports when I was 5 years old, and they put my sisters in sports. So that's what I grew up with, that mentality: "It's OK to want to be the best. Aggression is good." You have to have that little walk on the court or down the track. I love to put that into my female characters, because I don't think enough girls are taught that at a young age.”

“I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.”

People Age Young Class Taught Citizens Female Treats African American Young Age Second Class Citizens

Author:Queen Latifah

“And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.”

Thinking Whole Taught Female Whole Life Aggressive

Author:Uma Thurman

“Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.”

Dark Marriage Taught Married Female Arguing Mood Brown Futility Married Life Futility Of Life

Author:Isaac Asimov

“This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love.”

Source: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love