Conservatives Have No Understanding Of

A Child's Appetite For New Toys Appeal To The Desire For Ownership And Appropriation: The Appeal Of Toys Comes To Lie Not In Their Use But In Their Status As Possessions.

Once Women Begin To Question The Inevitability Of Their Subordination And To Reject The Conventions Formerly Associated With It, They Can No Longer Retreat To The Safety Of Those Conventions.

It Is A Tribute To The Peculiar Horror Of Contemporary Life That It Makes The Worst Features Of Earlier Times -- The Stupefaction Of The Masses, The Obsessed And Driven Lives Of The Bourgeoisie -- Seem Attractive By Comparison.

The Left Sees Nothing But Bigotry And Superstition In The Popular Defense Of The Family Or In Popular Attitudes Regarding Abortion, Crime, Busing, And The School Curriculum.

Most Women Are Pragmatists Who Have Allowed Extremists On The Left And Right To Manipulate The Family Issue For Their Own Purposes.