Sandra Bartky quotes

“We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.”
-- Sandra Bartky

Source : Sandra Lee Bartky (2012). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.65, Routledge

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“Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.”
-- Sandra Bartky

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“Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.”
-- Sandra Bartky

Source : Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.74, Psychology Press

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“The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one in particular.”
-- Sandra Bartky

Source : Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.74, Psychology Press

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“Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.”
-- Sandra Bartky

Source : Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.72, Routledge

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“The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.”

“In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.”

Source : Al Roker (2000). “Don't Make Me Stop this Car!: Adventures in Fatherhood”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

“It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.”

“Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.”

“The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.”

“Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters.”

“...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.”

“You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.”

“For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.”

“While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.”

Source : Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.128, Harvard University Press