Colette Dowling Quotes

Colette Dowling is an American writer best known for her 1981 book The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence, which was a New York Times best-seller. She has a psychotherapy practice in New York. Wikipedia  

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Famous Colette Dowling Quotes

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

Source: The Frailty Myth: Women Approaching Physical Equality (2000), p. 40

“Males are educated for independence from the day they are born.”

Source: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence (1981), p. 16

“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.”

Perfect Women: Hidden Fears of Inadequacy and the Drive to Perform (1988), p. 249

“Female physical frailty is not a reality but a myth with an agenda.”

Source: The Frailty Myth: Women Approaching Physical Equality (2000), p. 213

Colette Dowling Quotes about women

“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.”

"The Cinderella Syndrome" http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/22/magazine/the-cinderella-syndrome.html?pagewanted=all, The New York Times (22 March 1981)

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

Source: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence (1981), p. 3