Instead Of Confronting Its Real And Difficult

All Of Women's Aspirations--whether For Education, Work, Or Any Form Of Self-determination--ultimately Rest On Their Ability To Decide Whether And When To Bear Children. For This Reason, Reproductive Freedom Has Always Been The Most Popular Item In Each Of The Successive Feminist Agendas--and The Most Heavily Assaulted Target Of Each Backlash.

Having Whipped Single Women Into High Marital Panic-or "nuptialitis," As One Columnist Called It- The Press Hastened To Soothe Fretted Brows With Conjugal Tonic.

The Point Of Feminism ... Is To Win Women A Wider Range Of Experience. Feminism Remains A Pretty Simple Concept, Despite Repeated - And Enormously Effective - Efforts To Dress It Up In Greasepaint And Turn Its Proponents Into Gargoyles.

The Demand That Women "return To Femininity" Is A Demand That The Cultural Gears Shift Into Reverse, That We Back Up To A Fabled Time When Everyone Was Richer, Younger, More Powerful.

Self-esteem Is The Basis For Feminism Because Self-esteem Is Based On Defining Yourself And Believing In That Definition. Self-esteem Is Regarding Yourself As A Grown-up.