I'm My Age And I Feel Glorious.

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.

Men, Also, Have In Them Enormous Capacities That They Have To Repress And Fear In Themselves, Living Up To This Obsolete And Brutal Man-eating, Bear-killing, Ernest Hemingway, Crewcut Prussian Sadistic, Napalm All The Children In Vietnam, Bang-bang You're Dead, Image Of Masculinity, The Image Of All Powerful Masculine Superiority That Is Absolute.

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.

Being Jewish, You Didn't Get Into A Sorority. So I Really Was Much More Outgoing And Gregarious. I Really Didn't Want To Spend An Emily Dickinson Adolescence Reading Poetry On Gravestones, Which I Did.

When [the] Life Span Of America Women Is Approaching Eighty Years Having Kids Is Not Going To Take It Up.