Female physical frailty is not a reality but a myth with an agenda. - Colette Dowling

[The Cinderella Complex] used to hit girls of sixteen or seventeen, preventing them, often, from going to college, hastening them into early marriages. Now it tends to hit women after college—after they've been out in the world awhile. When the first thrill of freedom subsides and anxiety rises to take its place, they begin to be tugged by that old yearning for safety: the wish to be saved.

If girls could do nothing else in this world, they were supposed to be able to keep their blood from showing.

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