A Lot Of People Seem

The Women's Movement Hit My Neighborhood Like A Freight Train. Everybody Got Divorced. You Wonder What Would Have Happened To Women If The Suburbs Hadn't Been Built.

The 'feminine' Woman Is Forever Static And Childlike. She Is Like The Ballerina In An Old-fashioned Music Box, Her Unchanging Features Tiny And Girlish, Her Voice Tinkly, Her Body Stuck On A Pin, Rotating In A Spiral That Will Never Grow.

The Central Argument Of The Backlash - That Women's Equality Is Responsible For Women's Unhappiness.

That So-called Feminine Ardor For Clothes Shopping Had Been Flagging For Some Time. Between 1980 And 1986, At The Same Time That Women Were Buying More Houses, Cars, Restaurant Dinners, And Health Care Services, They Were Buying Fewer Pieces Of Clothing-from Dresses To Underwear.

I've Never Believed That Women Have Some Special, Essentialist Qualities, Or Were More Nurturing, Cooperative, And Morally Superior.