Frases de Colette Dowling

Colette Dowling es una psicoterapeuta y escritora estadounidense.

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Colette Dowling Frases y Citas

“Todo lo que se relaciona con la manera en que fuimos criadas nos ha venido diciendo que hemos de formar parte de alguien más, que debemos ser protegidas, apoyadas y animadas por la felicidad conyugal hasta el día de la muerte. Por supuesto, fuimos descubriendo la mentira que encerraba esta afirmación.”

Fuente: El complejo de Cenicienta: El miedo de las mujeres a la independencia, capítulo 1: El deseo de ser salvada, Barcelona, Randon House Mondadori, ISBN 9788497599801, 2004.
Fuente: El complejo de Cenicienta.

Colette Dowling: Frases en inglés

“If girls could do nothing else in this world, they were supposed to be able to keep their blood from showing.”

Fuente: The Frailty Myth: Women Approaching Physical Equality (2000), p. 40

“Males are educated for independence from the day they are born.”

Fuente: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence (1981), p. 16

“Women are brought up to depend on a man and to feel naked and frightened without one. We have been taught to believe that as females we cannot stand alone, that we are too fragile, too delicate, too needful of protection.”

"The Cinderella Syndrome" http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/22/magazine/the-cinderella-syndrome.html?pagewanted=all, The New York Times (22 March 1981)

“Female physical frailty is not a reality but a myth with an agenda.”

Fuente: The Frailty Myth: Women Approaching Physical Equality (2000), p. 213

“[Women] were not trained for freedom at all, but for its categorical opposite—dependency.”

Fuente: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence (1981), p. 3