"The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect."

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Source : Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

Karen Horney

#Responsibility Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Self Quotes

“We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.”
“My wife calls me the Imelda Marcos of books. As soon as a book enters our home it is guaranteed a permanent place in our lives. Because I have never been able to part with even one, they have gradually accumulated like sediment.”
“If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.”
“And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.”
“The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.”

Source : Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books
“By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.”
“We donâ€™t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object- we donâ€™t think about the relations that that object embodies- and were important to the production of that object, whether itâ€™s our food or our clothes or our iPads or all the materials we use to acquire an education at an institution like this. That would really be revolutionary to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non-human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment.”
“In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.”

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