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I Loved My Kids. And I Loved My House, And I Loved A Lot Of Things About My Life In The 1950s. But There Were A Lot Like Me In That Era, Very Overeducated Housewives.

Having Expressed The Rage Against The Laws And Conditions That Oppressed Them - Maybe Even Excess Anger In The Beginning Was Directed At Men They Came In Contact With, Because It Had Been Pent Up Too Long - Women Now Come From A New Position Of Easier, More Comfortable Self-affirmation And Empowerment. Women Are Given To Tolerance And Are More Able To Love. I Hope It Happens Also To Men.

Over And Over Again, Stories In Women's Magazines Insist That Women Can Know Fulfillment Only At The Moment Of Giving Birth To A Child. They Deny The Years When She Can No Longer Look Forward To Giving Birth, Even If She Repeats The Act Over And Over Again. In The Feminine Mystique, There Is No Other Way For A Woman To Dream Of Creation Or Of The Future. There Is No Other Way She Can Even Dream About Herself, Except As Her Children's Mother, Her Husband's Wife.

Women Today Have Choices And Demand Choices, Choices To Have Kids Or Not And The Reproductive Technology Thereto. And It Is A Fact [that] Most Women Continue To Chose To Have Children.

If I Were A Man, I Would Strenuously Object To The Assumption That Women Have Any Moral Or Spiritual Superiority As A Class.