Diversity Has Got To Be A Part

Chosen Motherhood Is The Real Liberation. The Choice To Have A Child Makes The Whole Experience Of Motherhood Different, And The Choice To Be Generative In Other Ways Can At Last Be Made, And Is Being Made By Many Women Now, Without Guilt.

I Realized That What I Was Saying Was Threatening, Somehow, To The Editors Of Women's Magazines. That It Threatened The Very World They Were Trying To Paint, What I Then Called The "feminine Mystique."

The Feminists Had Destroyed The Old Image Of Woman, But They Could Not Erase The Hostility, The Prejudice, The Discrimination That Still Remained.

It Is Perhaps Beside The Point To Remark That Bowling Alleys And Supermarkets Have Nursery Facilities, While Schools And Colleges And Scientific Laboratories And Government Offices Do Not.

The Key To The Trap Is, Of Course, Education. The Feminine Mystique Has Made Higher Education For Women Seem Suspect, Unnecessary And Even Dangerous. But I Think That Education, And Only Education, Has Saved, And Can Continue To Save, American Women From The Greater Dangers Of The Feminine Mystique.