Having Sex, Wanting Intimacy Quotes

“Most little girls are born with an innate aptitude for reading emotional cues and for verbalizing their emotional reactions. This is a common sex difference that many parents notice early in their child’s development. Nonetheless, parents and other authority figures communicate to girls and adult women that noticing and expressing emotions is a weakness. In many ways, society holds male development as the model of normal and, in turn, treats what is different as inherently wrong. All sorts of judgmental terms are used to communicate to young girls, and later to adult women, that others do not welcome their negative emotional reactions.”
― Jill P. Weber, Having Sex, Wanting Intimacy: Why Women Settle for One-Sided Relationships