Colette Dowling: Dependent

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“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