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“The consequences of treating
generations of women as economically illiterate are that women have been unable to educate their daughters about money, women have been shut out
from one of the main sources of power in capitalist societies (money), and few girls have grown up believing that finance is a career for them.”
― Annabelle Williams, Why Women Are Poorer Than Men and What We Can Do About It

“Beauty, like gender, is relational; women have been obliged to remain forever young so that men can delude themselves that they are not ageing themselves.”
― Victoria Dutchman-Smith, Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women

“When you are a woman, the things you like get used against you. Or, alternatively, the things that get used against you have all been prefigured as things you should like. Sexual availability falls into this category. So does basic kindness, and generosity. Wanting to look good—taking pleasure in trying to look good—does, too.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror

“[On Jane Austen] She was fully possessed of the idealism which is a necessary ingredient of the great satirist. If she criticized the institutions of earth, it was because she had very definite ideas regarding the institutions of heaven.”
― Rebecca West