Girls born into a patriarchal society become either shrewd or sick.

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Pildi allikas

Ready meant having an internal narrative about what it means to be a woman that they could weigh against the world’s narrative. I did not have an alternative narrative as a child, so when the world told me that a real girl is small, a quiet, pretty, accommodating, and pleasant, I believed that this was the Truth.

lk 161

Pildi allikas

Maybe Eve was never meant to be our warning. Maybe she was meant to be our model.

lk 122

Pildi allikas

What women want is good. What women want is beautiful. And what women want is dangerous, but not to women. Not to the common good. What women want is a threat to the injustice of the status quo.

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Pildi allikas

So, we do not honor our own bodies, curiosity, hunger, judgment, experience, or ambition. Instead, we lock away our true selves. Women who are best at this disappearing act earn the highest praise: She is so selfless.

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Pildi allikas

When a woman wants more, she defies God, betrays her partner, curses her family, and destroys the world.

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Pildi allikas

Because our culture was built upon and benefits from the control of women. The way power trolling group is by conditioning the masses to believe that the group cannot be trusted. So the campaign to convince us to mistrust women begins early and comes from everywhere.

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Pildi allikas