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What Had Really Caused The Women's Movement Was The Additional Years Of Human Life. At The Turn Of The Century Women's Life Expectancy Was Forty-six; Now It Was Nearly Eighty. Our Groping Sense That We Couldn't Live All Those Years In Terms Of Motherhood Alone Was "the Problem That Had No Name." Realizing That It Was Not Some Freakish Personal Fault But Our Common Problem As Women Had Enabled Us To Take The First Steps To Change Our Lives.

It Is Better For A Woman To Compete Impersonally In Society, As Men Do, Than To Compete For Dominance In Her Own Home With Her Husband, Compete With Her Neighbors For Empty Status, And So Smother Her Son That He Cannot Compete At All.

The Feminist Revolution Had To Be Fought Because Women Quite Simply Were Stopped At A State Of Evolution Far Short Of Their Human Capacity.

Each Suburban Wife Struggles With It Alone. As She Made The Beds, Shopped For Groceries, Matched Slipcover Material, Ate Peanut Butter Sandwiches With Her Children, Chauffeured Cub Scouts And Brownies, Lay Beside Her Husband At Night- She Was Afraid To Ask Even Of Herself The Silent Question-- 'is This All?

I Have Discovered That There Is A Crucial Difference Between Society's Image Of Old People And 'us' As We Know And Feel Ourselves To Be.