Nandini Vishwanath

“Most everyone knows that making someone your bitch might not mean that person is female, just as they also know it means that being dominated and powerless are feminine states of being.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“great empires often fell because of internal contradictions, not external enemies; due to the misguided policies of their rulers rather than the arms of any invader.”
― Manu S. Pillai, The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History

“they’ve turned increasingly to the importance of understanding anger and aggression, demonstrating how girls—operating in a vacuum of information about their negative emotions—channel their anger and aggression covertly, resorting to gossiping and spreading untruths about others, for example. Girls also police themselves to avoid the negative judgment of other girls.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“charged and dangerous situations. As girls, we are not taught to acknowledge or manage our anger so much as fear, ignore, hide, and transform it.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger