Clementine Ford (Clementine Shepherd Ford) Quotes

It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.

Clementine Ford

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• Kind
• Values
• Threat
• Insult
• Ridicule
• Sexually
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• Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

  

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• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

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• If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

  

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• In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

  

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• It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.

  

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• It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.

  

  Clementine Ford
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Values