We Can No Longer Ignore

Over And Over Again, Stories In Women's Magazines Insist That Women Can Know Fulfillment Only At The Moment Of Giving Birth To A Child. They Deny The Years When She Can No Longer Look Forward To Giving Birth, Even If She Repeats The Act Over And Over Again. In The Feminine Mystique, There Is No Other Way For A Woman To Dream Of Creation Or Of The Future. There Is No Other Way She Can Even Dream About Herself, Except As Her Children's Mother, Her Husband's Wife.

Aging Is Not "lost Youth" But A New Stage Of Opportunity And Strength.

It Is Better For A Woman To Compete Impersonally In Society, As Men Do, Than To Compete For Dominance In Her Own Home With Her Husband, Compete With Her Neighbors For Empty Status, And So Smother Her Son That He Cannot Compete At All.

It Is Frightening When A Woman Finally Realizes That There Is No Answer To The Question 'who Am I' Except The Voice Inside Herself.

I'm Against Suppression Of Pornography. If You Suppress Guns - Yes; If You Want To Suppress Poverty - Yes. These Are The Obscenities, The Real Brutalization Of People. I Am Almost More Outraged By Ads For Blue Jeans Or Cars That Sort Of Blatantly Depict Women Not Only As Sex Objects, But Women That Look Younger Than The Age Of Consent, Looking Like They've Just Been Raped Or Asking To Be Raped-utterly Passive Sex Objects.