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It Is Easier To Live Through Someone Else Than To Become Complete Yourself.

We Broke Through The Feminine Mystique And Women Who Were Wives, Mothers And Housewives Began To Find Themselves As People. That Didn't Mean They Stopped, Or Had To Stop, Being Mothers, Wives Or Even Liking Their Homes.

I Didn't Want To Be In A Situation Where I Was Broader Than The Boys, Which I Was, In The Academic World.

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.

I Won A Really Big Fellowship To Go Straight On To Get My Ph.d. And I Went Through Agonies Of Indecision, And Then I Decided Not To Accept It. I Just Decided I Didn't Want To Be An Academic.