The more she reflected on the traditional concept of femininity, the more Daly was convinced that there is nothing good in this notion for women to pursue. She asserted patriarchy has constructed both the positive feminine qualities of nurturance, compassion, and gentleness and the negative feminine qualities of pettiness, jealousy, and vanity. Thus, she concluded, women should reject the seemingly “good” aspects of femininity as well as the obviously “bad” ones. They are all “man-made constructs” shaped for the purposes of trapping women deep in the prison of patriarchy.