“Given our socialization into dependency, women are also poor risk takers. (...) We avoid new situations, job changes, moves to different parts of the country. Women are afraid that if they should make a mistake, or do "the wrong thing",… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“While we avoid taking credit for success, women leap at the opportunity to take responsibility for failure. Men tend to externalize the reasons for their failure, putting it off on something or someone else. Not so women, who absorb blame as if they were born to be societys doormats. (Some women like to speak of their willingness to take blame… — Colette Dowling Copy Share
“We have only one real shot at liberation, and that is to emancipate ourselves from within” — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“(...) psychiatrists today recognize the contortionist's act that was required of women in an age when they were expected to stifle their own healthiest… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“Given our socialization into dependency, women are also poor risk takers. (...) We avoid new situations, job changes, moves to different parts of the… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death. — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“(...) performance anxiety [in the worplace] is connected to other, more general fears which have to do with feeling inadequate and defenseless in the… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“Fear (...) that has no relation to capabilities or even to reality is epidemic among women today. Fear of being independent (that could mean… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
Without being conscious of it, she looks for a situation in which she can give up her façade of self-sufficiency and ease back into… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
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