“While we avoid taking credit for success, women leap at the opportunity to take responsibility for failure. Men tend to externalize the… — Colette Dowling Cinderella-complex Copy Share Image
“We have only one real shot at liberation, and that is to emancipate ourselves from within” — Colette Dowling Freedom 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… — Colette Dowling Cinderella-complex Copy Share Image
“Given our socialization into dependency, women are also poor risk takers. (...) We avoid new situations, job changes, moves to different parts… — Colette Dowling Cinderella-complex 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… — Colette Dowling Back and forth Copy Share Image
“(...) performance anxiety [in the worplace] is connected to other, more general fears which have to do with feeling inadequate and defenseless… — Colette Dowling Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Fear (...) that has no relation to capabilities or even to reality is epidemic among women today. Fear of being independent (that… — Colette Dowling Anxiety 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… — Colette Dowling Childhood Copy Share Image
Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs — Colette Dowling Belief Copy Share Image
