"Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant."

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Source : "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

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“Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.”
“The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.”

Source : Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”
“'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.”
“You listen to people that love you and you listen to people that you trust. Most of all, you listen to yourself.”
“Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.”
“Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.”

Source : "Marion Cotillard's 9/11 conspiracy theory". Interview with Peter Allen, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 1, 2008.
“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”

Source : Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984)
“Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!' But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!'”

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