So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own sex was once and for a very long time the superior and dominant sex. — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own sex was once and… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" - timidity,… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman dependent upon him economically as the only method open to him of making himself necessary to her. Since in the beginning woman would not become his willing slave, he has wrought through the centuries a society… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share
The misnamed "feminine" woman, so admired by her creator, man - the woman who is acquiescent in her inferiority and who has swallowed man's image of her as his ordained helpmate and no more - is in reality the "masculine" woman. The truly feminine woman "cannot help burning with that inner rage that comes from having to identify with her… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share
The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink. — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement of male… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment"… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility,… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness. — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
