The Last Thing A Man Becomes Progressive

What Is The Problem Of Women's Freedom? It Seems To Me To Be This: How To Arrange The World So That Women Can Be Human Beings, With A Chance To Exercise Their Infinitely Varied Gifts In Infinitely Varied Ways, Instead Of Being Destined By The Accident Of Their Sex To One Field Of Activity--housework And Child-raising. And Second, If And When They Choose Housework And Child-raising To Have That Occupation Recognized By The World As Work, Requiring A Definite Economic Reward And Not Merely Entitling The Performer To Be Dependent On Some Man.

I Took A Small Flat For Myself And The Children ... My Husband Took A Room In A Clean Rooming House Within Easy Walking Distance Of His Office. ... It Is Wonderful Sometimes To Be Alone In The Night And Just Know That Someone Loves You. In Other Moods You Must Have That Lover In Your Arms. Marriage Under Two Roofs Makes Room For Moods.

Indifference Is Harder To Fight Than Hostility, And There Is Nothing That Kills An Agitation Like Having Everybody Admit That It Is Fundamentally Right.

Public Opinion Actually Applauds The Young Woman Venturing Into The Business World, But It Still Obstinately (and Quite Illogically) Protects The Young Man In His Sacred Right To Know Nothing Of Housework.

The Last Thing A Man Becomes Progressive About Is The Activities Of His Own Wife.