Status Ought Not To Be

Too Many Women Are Forced To Abort By Poverty, By Their Menfolk, By Their Parents. A Choice Is Only Possible If There Are Genuine Alternatives.

Lovers Who Are Free To Go When They Are Restless Always Come Back; Lovers Who Are Free To Change Remain Interesting. The Bitter Animosity And Obscenity Of Divorce Is Unknown Where Individuals Have Not Become Siamese Twins.

The Only Perfect Love To Be Found On Earth Is Not Sexual Love, Which Is Riddled With Hostility And Insecurity, But The Wordless Commitment Of Families, Which Takes As Its Model Mother-love. This Is Not To Say That Fathers Have No Place, For Father-love, With Its Driving For Self-improvement And Discipline, Is Also Essential To Survival, But That Uncorrected Father-love, Father-love As It Were Practiced By Both Parents, Is A Way To Annihilation.

We Still Make Love To Organs And Not People; That So Far From Realising That People Are Never More Idiosyncratic, Never More Totally There When They Make Love, We Re Never More Incommunicative, Never More Alone.

In Any Library In The World, I Am At Home, Unselfconscious, Still And Absorbed.