“Men dream of Women
Women dream of themselves being dreamt of

Men look at Women
Women watch themselves being looked at

Women constantly meet glances wich act like mirrors, reminding them of how they look or how they should look

Behind every glance is a judgement
Sometimes the glance they meet is their own reflected back from a real man

A woman is always a company to accept when quite alone perhaps even then by her own image of herself

While she is walking across a room or weeping at the death of her father  she cannot avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping

From earliest childhood she is taught and persuaded to survey herself continually

She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to others and particularly how she appears to men is of crucial importance what is normally thought of as the success of her life”

John Berger, Ways of Seeing – BBC, 1972