"Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender."

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Source : Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.74, Psychology Press

Sandra Bartky

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“The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.”

Source : Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”
“Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.”
“A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.”
“You can't expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it's a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.”
“You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.”
“In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way.”
“I was not seduced by the celebrity side of acting. However, as a British girl watching a lot of American TV, I saw that there was a whole world of opportunity in the States that I wanted to discover.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.”

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