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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/i-d-been-so-tired-of-strong-female-characters-for-so-long-by-then-i/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

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## More by Carina Chocano

> [“You can learn a lot about the longings and generalized gender anxieties of an era by the kinds of fake women it dreams up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/you-can-learn-a-lot-about-the-longings-and-generalized-gender/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

> [“Gothic is the genre of fear. Our fascination with it is almost always revived during times of instability and panic. In the wake of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/gothic-is-the-genre-of-fear-our-fascination-with-it-is-almost-always/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

> [“Every new generation of women, it seems, feminist and housewife alike, is encouraged by popular culture to disavow its forebears and rebrand itself as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/every-new-generation-of-women-it-seems-feminist-and-housewife-alike/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/sex-may-be-completely-out-in-the-open-now-but-it-s-still-defined-and/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

> [“Across the various iterations, the 'real housewives' flaunted their refusal to conform to the happy modern housewife ideal as though they were breaking the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/across-the-various-iterations-the-real-housewives-flaunted-their/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

> [“We appeared to be done with the marriage plot. ('What's the alternative to the marriage plot?' She said: ' The alternative is adventure.') My…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/we-appeared-to-be-done-with-the-marriage-plot-what-s-the-alternative/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/romantic-love-is-a-mirror-in-which-you-can-see-your-whole-self/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

> [“What does a woman running for president have to do to be likable? Not run for president.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/what-does-a-woman-running-for-president-have-to-do-to-be-likable-not/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

> [“What is marriage anymore, anyway? How is the institution structured? What assumptions do we bring to it? Is it an irreducible economic unit, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/what-is-marriage-anymore-anyway-how-is-the-institution-structured/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/friedan-demystified-the-fairy-tale-and-traced-it-back-to-its-roots/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/in-his-1899-critique-of-upper-class-values-the-theory-of-the-leisure/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/strategic-girls-manage-perception-idealistic-girls-go-up-against-the/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

> [“What if, Elliott suggested, The Stepford Wives was more than just about housewifely ennui but also about the alienation and unending tedium of all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/what-if-elliott-suggested-the-stepford-wives-was-more-than-just-about/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

> [ “It \[puberty\] is not that you lose control of your body so much as that you lose control over the way your body is… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/it-puberty-is-not-that-you-lose-control-of-your-body-so-much-as-that/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

> [“What is marriage anymore, anyway? How is the institution structured? What assumptions do we bring to it? Is it an irreducible economic unit, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carina-chocano/what-is-marriage-anymore-anyway-how-is-the-institution-structured-2/)

[Carina Chocano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carina-chocano/)

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