Our Life-style Contains More Thanatos Than Eros,

In Modern Consumer Society, The Attack On Mother-child Eroticism Took Its Total Form; Breastfeeding Was Proscribed And The Breasts Reserved For The Husband's Fetishistic Delectation. At The Same Time, Babies Were Segregated, Put Into Cold Beds Alone And Not Picked Up If They Cried.

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 Woman Knows That, Regardless Of All Her Other Achievements, She Is A Failure If She Is Not Beautiful.

A Woman Might Claim To Retain Some Of The Child's Faculties, Although Very Limited And Defused, Simply Because She Has Not Been Encouraged To Learn Methods Of Thought And Develop A Disciplined Mind. As Long As Education Remains Largely Induction Ignorance Will Retain These Advantages Over Learning And It Is Time That Women Impudently Put Them To Work.

Reading Was My First Solitary Vice (and Led To All Others). I Read While I Ate, I Read In The Loo, I Read In The Bath. When I Was Supposed To Be Sleeping, I Was Reading.