It Is Easier To Live Through Someone

The Media And Even, To Some Degree, Leaders Of Women's Organizations Don't Understand That The Women's Movement Is An Absolute Part Of Society Now. It Is In The Consciousness, It Is Taken For Granted. It Is Part Of The Way Women Look At Themselves, And Women Are Looked At.

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.

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.

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

Strange New Problems Are Being Reported In The Growing Generations Of Children Whose Mothers Were Always There, Driving Them Around, Helping Them With Their Homework --an Inability To Endure Pain Or Discipline Or Pursue Any Self-sustained Goal Of Any Sort, A Devastating Boredom With Life.