Quotation
“The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.”
Jeannette Rankin
The idea behind the quotation
Women are repeatedly made to choose between preserving their agreeable nature by accepting an assigned role, or keeping their self-respect by acting independently.