People expect girls from good middle-class families to be smart -- but what they mean by smart for a girl is to have nic — Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
People expect girls from good middle-class families to be smart -- but what they mean by smart for a girl is to have nic — Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
People expect girls from good middle-class families to be smart -- but what they mean by smart for a girl is to have nic — Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
People expect girls from good middle-class families to be smart -- but what they mean by smart for a girl is to have nic — Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
People expect girls from good middle-class families to be smart -- but what they mean by smart for a girl is to have nic — Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
Download Customize

People expect girls from good middle-class families to be smart -- but what they mean by smart for a girl is to have nice handwriting and a neat locker and to do her homework on time. They don't expect ideas or much in the way of real thought.

— Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
Pin Share Tweet Telegram
Topics
feminism intelligence

More “Feminism” Quotes

While boys are taught that the things that make them men--good men--are universally accepted ethical ideals, women are l — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
There is a pernicious notion held by many that being a submissive means being a victim or a doormat. The so-called Fifty — Michael Makai, The Warrior Princess Submissive
Feminism, which is supposedly for everybody, apparently has no place for conservative women. Why would feminists need to — Chris Sardegna
Why should anyone raise an eyebrow because a latter-day Einstein’s wife expects her husband to put aside that lifeless t — Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it. — Shahla Khan, Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence
Such was the complexity of things. For what happened to her, especially staying with the Ramsays, was to be made to feel — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Does it explain my astonishment the other day when Z, most humane, most modest of men, taking up some book by Rebecca We — Virginia Woolf
In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed. For whatever r — Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
...a woman, silent, voiceless, a mere woman who didn't bear on her shoulders the enormous responsibility of building the — Laura Esquivel, Malinche
I understand that you come from a generation of women who had to work hard to be heard, but for you to impugn my feminis — Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
That evening, in her apartment, still in Warsaw, Ana takes down a book from her shelf – a rather thick, ordinary paperba — Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we ´should' be rather than recognizing how we are. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie