Status Updates From اللغز الأنثوي

“…sexual abuse of women and less overt forms of sexual harassment are now considered serious enough crimes to being down a senator or Supreme Court justice or even a president.”

Must be nice

“By 1976, I predict, even the Republicans will have a woman running seriously for vice-president, if not for president.”

Absolutely devastating sentence to read. Betty Friedman, you thought too highly of America.

“It seemed to me that men weren’t really the enemy—they were fellow victims, suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.”

“If we continue to produce millions of young mothers who stop their growth and education short of identity, without a strong core of human values to pass on to their children, we are committing, quite simply, genocide, starting with the mass burial of American women and ending with the progressive dehumanization of their sons and daughters.”

“‘…I enjoy my children more now that I’ve made room for myself. Before, […] it was as if I was always looking for something through them. I couldn’t just enjoy them as I do now, as though they were a sunset, something outside me, separate. Before, I felt so tied down by them […]. Maybe a woman has to be by herself to be really with her children.’”

“Thus Professor Maslow suggested that either you have to describe as ‘masculine’ both high-dominance men and women or drop the terms ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ altogether because they are so ‘misleading.’”

“But the rage of the millions that could have knocked down the barbed-wire fences and the SS guns was turned instead against themselves, and against the prisoners even weaker than they. Then they felt even more powerless than they were, and saw the SS guns and the fences as even more impregnable than they were.”