"Women are brought up to depend on a man and to feel naked and frightened without one. We have been taught to believe …"

"There's something spectacularly freeing about acknowledging that one has both resources and limitations, and that bot…"

"[Women] were not trained for freedom at all, but for its categorical opposite—dependency."

"Males are educated for independence from the day they are born."

"We have only one real shot at "liberation," and that is to emancipate ourselves from within. It is the thesis of this…"

"[The Cinderella Complex] used to hit girls of sixteen or seventeen, preventing them, often, from going to college, ha…"

"Only after she begins to disengage from her belief in her own helplessness can she break out of the vicious cycle of …"

"Lack of confidence leads us into the dark waters of envy. We see men are functioning without hang-ups—and like girls …"

"The woman who has sprung free has emotional mobility. She is able to move toward the things that are satisfying to he…"

"If girls could do nothing else in this world, they were supposed to be able to keep their blood from showing."