16 To Call or Not to Call
Women today are looking for a new kind of relationship,
not the kind their mothers and fathers may have had. They
want intimate communication and lasting romance. To achieve
this end, new skills are definitely required. A woman today
needs to be not only soft and feminine but also assertive.
Many successful women have learned to be assertive in the
work world, but still wonder why they are single. They haven’t
yet learned the art of being assertive and feminine. For most
women, this is not easy because they have no role models.
Either they saw their fathers being assertive and their mothers
being accommodating or it was the other way around: Their
mothers were dominant and their fathers were yielding and
passive.
Most women have not yet learned the art of
being assertive and feminine.253