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> [it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement of male supremacy is, rather, a pathetic striving for self-respect, self-justification, and self-pardon. After fifteen hundred years of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gould-davis/it-is-not-men-that-most-women-worry-about-when-they-rise-to-the/)

[Elizabeth Gould Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gould-davis/)

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## More by Elizabeth Gould Davis

> [So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own sex was once and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gould-davis/so-long-has-the-myth-of-feminine-inferiority-prevailed-that-women/)

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> [Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" - timidity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gould-davis/men-insist-that-they-don-t-mind-women-succeeding-so-long-as-they/)

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> [The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gould-davis/the-fact-is-that-men-need-women-more-than-women-need-men-and-so-aware/)

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> [The misnamed "feminine" woman, so admired by her creator, man - the woman who is acquiescent in her inferiority and who has swallowed man's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gould-davis/the-misnamed-feminine-woman-so-admired-by-her-creator-man-the-woman/)

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> [The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gould-davis/the-most-wasteful-brain-drain-in-america-today-is-the-drain-in-the/)

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> [it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement of male…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gould-davis/it-is-not-men-that-most-women-worry-about-when-they-rise-to-the/)

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> [In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gould-davis/in-the-new-science-of-the-twenty-first-century-not-physical-force-but/)

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> [Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gould-davis/man-is-by-nature-a-pragmatic-materialist-a-mechanic-a-lover-of/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gould-davis/the-idea-of-feminine-authority-is-so-deeply-embedded-in-the-human/)

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> [To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gould-davis/to-the-masculists-of-both-sexes-femininity-implies-all-that-men-have/)

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> [...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gould-davis/congenital-killers-and-criminals-are-possessed-of-not-one-but-two-y/)

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