How we cite our quotes: (Part.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #1
What you've got to remember, […] is that most women are liberated right now. They like what they're doing. They do it because they like it. (3.2.132)
Aside from Janet and Joanna, how many of the women at the party on Riverside Drive would disagree with Ewing?
Quote #2
Last year I finally gave up and told my mother I didn't want to be a girl but she said Oh no, being a girl is wonderful. Why? Because you can wear pretty clothes and you don't have to do anything; the men will do it for you. She said that instead of conquering Everest, I could conquer the conqueror of Everest. (4.11.1)
Women like Mrs. Wilding and Saccharissa like to talk about women's ability to conquer men, but what do they really mean by "conquer"? Is it the same thing that Jael is thinking when she talks about winning the war?
Quote #3
There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference training, the dependency training, the passivity training, the rivalry training, the stupidity training, the placation training. (7.5.4)
One way of refuting Ewing's argument that women "like" their gender roles is to argue that, if women are trained to like them, then that liking doesn't really count. According to The Female Man, what social institutions (family, church, state, school, etc.) "train" women in this way?