Book Quote by Rufus Wainwright

“As I researched the history of the heroine it became painfully clear to me that women have had little hand in creating our own…

— Kathleen Noble

“If women allow themselves to be consoled for their culturally determined lack of access to the modes of intellectual debate by the invocation of…

— Angela Carter

Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women,…

— Jalaja Bonheim

I've been reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is obviously very dated now but still relevant. It's so interesting to see how…

— Rose Byrne

“The rise of the beauty myth was just one of several emerging social fictions that masqueraded as natural components of the feminine sphere, the…

— Naomi Wolf

“Myths born in patriarchy offer a limited source of data on women. What they usually tell is how women react under patriarchy.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Since middle-class Western women can best be weakened psychologically now that we are stronger materially, the beauty myth, as it has resurfaced in the…

— Naomi Wolf

'Believe women' only works as a rule of thumb when all women are good. That myth falls flat outside Victorian England.

— Bari Weiss

“For any one woman to outgrow the myth, she needs the support of many women. The toughest but most necessary change will come not…

— Naomi Wolf

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

“Every woman is a priestess,” she said abruptly. “Every single one.” She turned to Marianne, her eyes clear as water. “The major religions and…

— Nina George

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.

— Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks