Elizabeth Gould Davis Quote

Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement — are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.


The First Sex, ch. 22 - Woman in the Aquarian Age (1971).


Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their femininity. Yet the qualities that men consider feminine timidity,...

Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their femininity. Yet the qualities that men consider feminine timidity,...

Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their femininity. Yet the qualities that men consider feminine timidity,...

Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their femininity. Yet the qualities that men consider feminine timidity,...