[Women] were not trained for freedom at all, but for its categorical opposite—dependency. - Colette Dowling

The woman who has sprung free has emotional mobility. She is able to move toward the things that are satisfying to her and away from those that are not. She is free, also, to succeed.

There's something spectacularly freeing about acknowledging that one has both resources and limitations, and that both of these give shape to one's life.

Women are brought up to depend on a man and to feel naked and frightened without one. We have been taught to believe that as females we cannot stand alone, that we are too fragile, too delicate, too needful of protection.