“While women suffer from our relative lack of power in the world and often resent it, certain dimensions of this powerlessness may seem abstract and remote. We know, for example, that we rarely get to make the laws or direct… — Sandra Lee Bartky Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the exigencies of female tenderness are such as virtually to guarantee the man's absolution by the woman--not on her terms, but on his. Moreover, the man's confession of fear or failure tends to mystify the woman's understanding not only of the power dimensions of the relationship between herself and this particular man, but of the relations of power between… — Sandra Lee Bartky Copy Share
“While women suffer from our relative lack of power in the world and often resent it, certain dimensions of this powerlessness may seem abstract… — Sandra Lee Bartky Copy Share Image
“Why isn't every woman a feminist? Feminism tells a tale of female injury, but the average woman in heterosexual intimacy knows that men are… — Sandra Lee Bartky Copy Share Image
“Those who claim that any woman can reprogram her consciousness if only she is sufficiently determined hold a shallow view of the nature of… — Sandra Lee Bartky Copy Share Image
“Existentialist literature provides a more satisfactory account of the persistence of feminine narcissism. Simone de Beauvoir makes use of the existentialist conception of 'situation'… — Sandra Lee Bartky Copy Share Image
“Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must take up as little space as possible. The… — Sandra Lee Bartky Copy Share Image
