- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this passage, Marlene laments the fact that men want to be “seen with” a successful woman like Marlene, but do not actually want her to be independent or prosperous in her own right. Men want to use women as accessories, and admire the qualities of independence, success, and intrepidness for a while. However, Marlene has found that, without fail, men always want for her to abandon her pursuit of success, fortune, and self-actualization and settle into a traditionally feminine role. Having confronted extreme sexism in the workplace, it is disheartening for Marlene to realize that it is not only…