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Colette Dowling

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American writer

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
South Africa

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Quotes

  • 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.
  • 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] were not trained for freedom at all, but for its categorical opposite—dependency.
  • Males are educated for independence from the day they are born.
  • [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.
  • Only after she begins to disengage from her belief in her own helplessness can she break out of the vicious cycle of dependency and its brutal effect in her life.

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