Fairy tale Quote by Carina Chocano

“You can learn a lot about the longings and generalized gender anxieties of an era by the kinds of fake women it dreams up.”

— Carina Chocano

“Gothic is the genre of fear. Our fascination with it is almost always revived during times of instability and panic. In the wake of…

— Carina Chocano

“Every new generation of women, it seems, feminist and housewife alike, is encouraged by popular culture to disavow its forebears and rebrand itself as…

— Carina Chocano

“Sex may be completely out in the open now, but it's still defined and controlled by a powerful subset of elite men. In the…

— Carina Chocano

“Across the various iterations, the 'real housewives' flaunted their refusal to conform to the happy modern housewife ideal as though they were breaking the…

— Carina Chocano

“We appeared to be done with the marriage plot. ('What's the alternative to the marriage plot?' She said: ' The alternative is adventure.') My…

— Carina Chocano

“Romantic love is a mirror in which you can see your whole self pleasantly reflected, if you’re lucky. Or it’s a dark mirror into…

— Carina Chocano

“What does a woman running for president have to do to be likable? Not run for president.”

— Carina Chocano

“What is marriage anymore, anyway? How is the institution structured? What assumptions do we bring to it? Is it an irreducible economic unit, in…

— Carina Chocano

“In his 1899 critique of upper-class values, The Theory of the Leisure Class, economist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen wrote, 'The dress of women goes…

— Carina Chocano

“Strategic girls manage perception; idealistic girls go up against the narrative, because it’s at the root of the problem, and they get crushed every…

— Carina Chocano

“What if, Elliott suggested, The Stepford Wives was more than just about housewifely ennui but also about the alienation and unending tedium of all…

— Carina Chocano