marianne-williamson

Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect.

I conquered outer worlds just as he had. I expressed masculine strength and power just as he had. But it didn't bring me closer to him or to others like him because I had become one of the guys, and that's not what most men are looking for. He had never loved me for being a great guy.

If a man is unmarried, he is called a bachelor. If a woman is unmarried, she is called a spinster or an old maid. What is it about an unmarried woman that poses such a threat to the patriarchal order? Mainly, it is that women are no one's property when we're unmarried. We're under no one's control, and neither are our children. There is no telling what we might do or say.

Love as much as you can from wherever you are.

We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.