Elaine Showalter

"Nonetheless, the feminist obsession with correcting, modifying, supplementing, revising, humanizing, or even attacking male critical theory keeps us dependent upon it and retards our progress in solving our own theoretical problems." (p. 356)
I loved this quote because this type of behavior is true for a lot of situations people face everyday.  We almost hold ourselves back from being all we can be because of someone else or something else.  If we allow these discouraging situations to keep our focus off of doing what we want to or love to do such as writing we will never further ourselves.  If women are claiming that they don't need male approval and shouting out that women can do everything man can then why are they even focusing on men's negative opinions.  Men wouldn't stop before doing something and ask what a woman would think about the situation and if women are equal to men they shouldn't either.