Emotional stability Quote by Sady Doyle

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his…

— Tennessee Williams

“The fear of 'unnatural' women was high, as it was in the 1980s, as it is as I write this in 2016. Women's behavior…

— Carina Chocano

“Somatize: how the body defends itself against too much stress, manifesting psychological distress as physical symptoms in the stomach or nerves or uterus or…

— Eve Ensler

As history shows, childless women in America eventually provoke hysteria.

— Michelle Goldberg

“Madness, not just physical abuse, was the punishment for too much talk if you were female. Yet even as this fear of madness haunted…

— Bell Hooks

“Sexists refer to every female political opinion as "hysterical," just like they refer to every word a woman says when she opens her mouth…

— Sady Doyle

“In all societies, women are in double jeopardy; on the one hand we are expected to conform to certain emotional standards in our relationships…

— Adrienne Rich

Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.

— Robert Anton Wilson

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

— Simone de Beauvoir

“This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented by the world's religions, by psychoanalysis,…

— Sheila Jeffreys

Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.

— Anonymous

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson