Jennifer Majewski

“One study confirmed that women’s influence is so pegged to warmth and appearing caring and prosocial that the “performance plus confidence equals power and influence” formula that’s so effective for men blows up in women’s faces. The study’s author concludes: “Self-confidence is gender-neutral, the consequences of appearing self-confident are not.” Portraying confidence does not work for women, so telling women to simply be more confident is twisted.”
― Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good

“Our culture has little tolerance for or interest in women past their procreative prime, and certainly we have no reverence for them. While we have sanctified old men and propped them up as the ultimate authorities—the priests, lawmakers, judges—we have exiled their counterparts.”
― Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good

“There is no greater lever for keeping women in poverty, in subservience, than to deny them the ability to determine their procreative future.”
― Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good

“How many of us are compelled in our daily lives by what we think we should do? By what we have to do? In all this caretaking, we backburner our own needs, never lending them any heat, hoping, perhaps, that someone will notice our selflessness and reciprocate by taking care of us. This is often futile: It’s impossible not to feel resentful, to take that anger and turn it toward ourselves.”
― Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good