We Can No Longer Ignore That Voice

This Idea That The Employment Of Women, The Movement Of Women Outside The Home Into The Work World, And Their Demand For Equality Is Somehow Responsible For Increasing Juvenile Delinquency Or The Increase In Divorce Rate, Is Just So Much Bullshit.

Instead Of Fulfilling The Promise Of Infinite Orgasmic Bliss, Sex In The America Of The Feminine Mystique Is Becoming A Strangely Joyless National Compulsion, If Not A Contemptuous Mockery.

Aging Is Not "lost Youth" But A New Stage Of Opportunity And Strength.

What Had Really Caused The Women's Movement Was The Additional Years Of Human Life. At The Turn Of The Century Women's Life Expectancy Was Forty-six; Now It Was Nearly Eighty. Our Groping Sense That We Couldn't Live All Those Years In Terms Of Motherhood Alone Was "the Problem That Had No Name." Realizing That It Was Not Some Freakish Personal Fault But Our Common Problem As Women Had Enabled Us To Take The First Steps To Change Our Lives.

All Year There Have Been These Cover Stories That The Women's Movement Is Dead And About The Death Of Feminism And The Post-feminist Generation Of Young Women Who Don't Identify With Feminism - And Then We Have The Biggest March Ever Of Women In Washington. More People Than Had Ever Marched For Anything - Not Only More Women, But More People.