No

A muscle needs flexing.
Teach your daughters when they are little girls to practice saying no.
Let them know that they can.
Let them feel that they will be heard when they say it.
That what they say no to, will not be forced onto them, regardless.
That no is not a placeholder for an eventual yes.
That no does not need to change when it meets
cajoling, convincing, begging, threatening,
violence.
That no is not maybe, I’ll think about it, or could you make up my mind for me.
That no is an expression of their truth and their truth matters.
Teach them this: No does not make them difficult, moody, rude, arrogant, badly behaved.
That no is not a failure to adjust.
That no is not a stamp of disobedience on their bodies.
It is simply no.
And it is theirs to apply to their bodies, their lives, their spirit.
Teach them.
For it is possible that the world will not.