Clarissa Pincola Estes

This early training to “be nice” causes women to override their intuitions. In that sense, they are actually purposefully taught to submit to the predator.

A woman in such environs will often try to mold her daughter so that she acts “properly” in the outer world—thereby hoping to save her daughter and herself from attack.

Can’t do anything right. Try to make it better. Makes it worse instead.

Some women act as though it is an achievement to be cold. It is not. It is an act of defensive anger.

We see women who listen to someone telling them they are wrongheaded over and over again without understanding that cats don't swim and hens don’t dive under water.

All you want is love. All they want is peace.