No One Goes To The Toilet In

Guilt Is One Side Of A Nasty Triangle; The Other Two Are Shame And Stigma. This Grim Coalition Combines To Inculpate Women Themselves Of The Crimes Committed Against Them.

It Is Often Falsely Assumed, Even By Feminists, That Sexuality Is The Enemy Of The Female Who Really Wants To Develop These Aspects Of Her Personality, And This Is Perhaps The Most Misleading Aspect Of Movements Like The National Organization Of Women. It Was Not The Insistence Upon Her Sex That Weakened The American Woman Student's Desire To Make Something Of Her Education, But The Insistence Upon A Passive Sexual Role

Every Wife Who Slaves To Keep Herself Pretty, To Cook Her Husband's Favourite Meals, To Build Up His Pride And Confidence In Himself At The Expense Of His Sense Of Reality, To Be His Closest And Effectively His Only Friend, To Encourage Him To Rejectthe Consensus Of Opinionand Find Reassurance Only In Her Arms Is Binding Her Mate To Her With Hoops Of Steel That Will Strangle Them Both.

So Far It Has Been Assumed That The Only Pregnancies Which Are Aborted Are Accidental Ones And The Only Foetuses Destroyed Those Whose Mothers Could Not Bear The Thought Of Their Becoming Children. In A Just World This Would Be The Case, But The World Is Far From Just. Too Many Women Are Forced To Abort By Poverty, By Their Menfolk, By Their Parents. Poverty Has Many Faces; It May Be The Poverty Of The Young, The Unmarried, The Student, The Unemployed, The Female Or A Combination Of These.

Poetry Exists Partly To Undermine The Certainties Of An Accepted Intellectual System, By Opening A Fissure Of Awareness At Which The Reality Of The Unconquered World May Enter.