A Good Deal Of Tyranny Goes By

It Is All Right For The Lion And The Lamb To Lie Down Together If They Are Both Asleep, But If One Of Them Begins To Get Active, It Is Dangerous.

What Is The Problem Of Women's Freedom? It Seems To Me To Be This: How To Arrange The World So That Women Can Be Human Beings, With A Chance To Exercise Their Infinitely Varied Gifts In Infinitely Varied Ways, Instead Of Being Destined By The Accident Of Their Sex To One Field Of Activity--housework And Child-raising. And Second, If And When They Choose Housework And Child-raising To Have That Occupation Recognized By The World As Work, Requiring A Definite Economic Reward And Not Merely Entitling The Performer To Be Dependent On Some Man.

Public Opinion Actually Applauds The Young Woman Venturing Into The Business World, But It Still Obstinately (and Quite Illogically) Protects The Young Man In His Sacred Right To Know Nothing Of Housework.

I Took A Small Flat For Myself And The Children ... My Husband Took A Room In A Clean Rooming House Within Easy Walking Distance Of His Office. ... It Is Wonderful Sometimes To Be Alone In The Night And Just Know That Someone Loves You. In Other Moods You Must Have That Lover In Your Arms. Marriage Under Two Roofs Makes Room For Moods.

Life Is A Big Battle For The Complete Feminist.