Jennifer Majewski

“They acknowledge that they know they’re better prepared and more competent than most of the men with whom they work; they just know better than to show it.”
― Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good

“This denial prevents us from crediting ourselves (pride), pleasuring ourselves (lust), feeding and securing ourselves (gluttony, greed), releasing our emotions and asserting our needs (anger), relaxing (sloth), and desiring…really anything at all (envy). This denial keeps us from celebrating abundance, personal accomplishment, and fulfillment.”
― 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

“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