“The "feminine" woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.”
Source: Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women
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Susan Faludi 8
American feminist 1959Related quotes

Original: (it) Lei, di una particolare ed unica bellezza. I lineamenti del suo volto e del suo corpo sono di una sottile trasgressione che si fonde tra dolcezza e sensualità. Il suo fascino profuma di donna.
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As quoted in M. Leonard, The Chaperon and Housemother, Builders of Youth (1947), p. 51

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