The Feminists Had Destroyed The Old Image

...women Who 'adjust' As Housewives, Who Grow Up Wanting To Be 'just A Housewife,' Are In As Much Danger As The Millions Who Walked To Their Own Death In The Concentration Camps...they Ate Suffering A Slow Death Of Mind And Spirit.

The Real Joke That History Played On American Women Is Not The One That Makes People Snigger, With Cheap Freudian Sophistication, At The Dead Feminists. It Is The Joke That Freudian Thought Played On Living Women, Twisting The Memory Of The Feminists Into The Man-eating Phantom Of The Feminine Mystique, Shriveling The Very Wish To Be More Than Just A Wife And Mother.

It Was The Era That I Later Analyzed, The "feminine Mystique" Era, [when] "career Woman" Was A Dirty Word. And So I Didn't Want A Career Anymore. [but] I Had To Do Something. So I Started Freelancing For Women's Magazines.

The Only Way For A Woman, As For A Man, To Find Herself, To Know Herself As A Person, Is By Creative Work Of Her Own.

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.