In civilized societies today ... clitoris envy, or womb envy, takes subtle forms. Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humbl...e her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements--all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom..., justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right... the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman dependent upon him economica...lly as the only method open to him of making himself necessary to her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Women's] apparent endorsement of male supremacy is ... a pathetic striving for self- respect, self-justification, and self-pardon.... After fifteen hundred years of subjection to men, Western woman finds it almost unbearable to face the fact that she has been hoodwinked and enslaved by her inferiors--that the master is lesser than the slave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gif...ts will be more in demand than gifts of a physical nature. Extrasensory perception will take precedence over sensory perception. And in this sphere woman will again predominate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are qualities that characterize t...he "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "f...eminine"Mtimidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement--are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A separation situation is different for adults than it is for children. When we were very young children, a physical separation wa...s interpreted as a violation of our inalienable rights....As we grew older, the withdrawal of love, whether that meant being misunderstood, mislabeled or slighted, became the separation situation we responded to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »