Who Knows What Women Can

I Loved My Kids. And I Loved My House, And I Loved A Lot Of Things About My Life In The 1950s. But There Were A Lot Like Me In That Era, Very Overeducated Housewives.

I Never Set Out To Write A Book To Change Women's Lives, To Change History. It's Like, 'who, Me?' Yes, Me. I Did It. And I'm Not That Different From Other Women. Maybe My Power And Glory Was That I Could Speak My Truth As A Woman And It Was The Truth Of Every Woman.

Women Today Have Choices And Demand Choices, Choices To Have Kids Or Not And The Reproductive Technology Thereto. And It Is A Fact [that] Most Women Continue To Chose To Have Children.

We Broke Through The Feminine Mystique And Women Who Were Wives, Mothers And Housewives Began To Find Themselves As People. That Didn't Mean They Stopped, Or Had To Stop, Being Mothers, Wives Or Even Liking Their Homes.

When She Stopped Conforming To The Conventional Picture Of Femininity She Finally Began To Enjoy Being A Woman.