When you're crowned Miss America, they put you up on a pedestal. People really look up to you and they think you're perfect. They ...think that you have everything that you've ever wanted or dreamed about in life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.... Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the strong agonized men Wear the hard clothes of war,... Try to remember what they are fighting for. But in dark weeping helpless moments of peace Women and poets believe and resist forever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life ...are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. A just government, a humane religion, a pure social life await her coming.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy,... cleanliness, sobriety, and order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The destiny of the whole race is comprised in four things: Religion, education, morals, politics. Woman is a religious being; she ...is becoming educated; she has a high code of morals; she will yet purify politics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freedom of choice for women, at the expense of the caring, warmth, and sensitivity to others so often associated with them, may be... empty. In the thrust to redefine male and female roles, women must not become men; nor can men be permitted the continual dehumanization of their roles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivili...zed beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannot ... be controverted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »