“I'd been so tired of 'strong female characters' for so long by then. I was so tired of the way female strength was made to look cold and humorless; the way it was characterized as deviant and 'unnatural' and always… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“You can learn a lot about the longings and generalized gender anxieties of an era by the kinds of fake women it dreams up.” — Carina Chocano Copy Share
“Gothic is the genre of fear. Our fascination with it is almost always revived during times of instability and panic. In the wake of… — Carina Chocano Copy Share
“Every new generation of women, it seems, feminist and housewife alike, is encouraged by popular culture to disavow its forebears and rebrand itself as… — Carina Chocano Copy Share
“Sex may be completely out in the open now, but it's still defined and controlled by a powerful subset of elite men. In the… — Carina Chocano Copy Share
“Across the various iterations, the 'real housewives' flaunted their refusal to conform to the happy modern housewife ideal as though they were breaking the… — Carina Chocano Copy Share
“We appeared to be done with the marriage plot. ('What's the alternative to the marriage plot?' She said: ' The alternative is adventure.') My… — Carina Chocano Copy Share
“Romantic love is a mirror in which you can see your whole self pleasantly reflected, if you’re lucky. Or it’s a dark mirror into… — Carina Chocano Copy Share
“What does a woman running for president have to do to be likable? Not run for president.” — Carina Chocano Copy Share
“What is marriage anymore, anyway? How is the institution structured? What assumptions do we bring to it? Is it an irreducible economic unit, in… — Carina Chocano Copy Share
“Friedan demystified the fairy tale and traced it back to its roots. She named the unnamed problem. She told women they weren’t crazy, that… — Carina Chocano Copy Share
“In his 1899 critique of upper-class values, The Theory of the Leisure Class, economist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen wrote, 'The dress of women goes… — Carina Chocano Copy Share
“Strategic girls manage perception; idealistic girls go up against the narrative, because it’s at the root of the problem, and they get crushed every… — Carina Chocano Copy Share
“What if, Elliott suggested, The Stepford Wives was more than just about housewifely ennui but also about the alienation and unending tedium of all… — Carina Chocano Copy Share
“It [puberty] is not that you lose control of your body so much as that you lose control over the way your body is… — Carina Chocano Copy Share
“What is marriage anymore, anyway? How is the institution structured? What assumptions do we bring to it? Is it an irreducible economic unit, in… — Carina Chocano Copy Share
