I Didn't Want To Be

The Real Joke That History Played On American Women Is Not The One That Makes People Snigger, With Cheap Freudian Sophistication, At The Dead Feminists. It Is The Joke That Freudian Thought Played On Living Women, Twisting The Memory Of The Feminists Into The Man-eating Phantom Of The Feminine Mystique, Shriveling The Very Wish To Be More Than Just A Wife And Mother.

I Knew One Thing. I Did Not Want To Be A Mommy Like Mommy.

Diversity Has Got To Be A Part Of Modern Feminism, And I Think That My Feminism Is Stronger Because Its An Inclusive Thing. I Won't Be Backed Into A Corner That Polarizes Me Against Other Women. And I Wished They Wouldn't Be Either.

The Man Who Is Extremely And Dangerously Hungry Has No Other Interest But Food. Capacities Not Useful For The Satisfying Of Hunger Are Pushed Into The Background. 'but What Happens To Man's Desires When There Is Plenty Of Food And His Belly In Chronically Filled? At Once, Other (and Higher) Needs Emerge And These, Rather Than The Psychological Hungers, Dominate The Organism.

Neither Woman Nor Man Lives By Work, Or Love, Alone ... The Human Self Defines Itself And Grows Through Love And Work: All Psychology Before And After Freud Boils Down To That.