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Men, Also, Have In Them Enormous Capacities That They Have To Repress And Fear In Themselves, Living Up To This Obsolete And Brutal Man-eating, Bear-killing, Ernest Hemingway, Crewcut Prussian Sadistic, Napalm All The Children In Vietnam, Bang-bang You're Dead, Image Of Masculinity, The Image Of All Powerful Masculine Superiority That Is Absolute.

If You Were Very Bright And You Became Head Of A Department, As I Did, Of The Psychology Department, You Were Encouraged To Go On To Graduate Work. But As A Women You Didn't Even Think About Discrimination.

The Suburban Housewife - She Was The Dream Image Of The Young American Women And The Envy, It Was Said, Of Women All Over The World. The American Housewife - Freed By Science And Labor-saving Appliances From The Drudgery, The Dangers Of Childbirth, And The Illnesses Of Her Grandmother Had Found True Feminine Fulfillment.

Each Woman Is Made To Feel It Is Her Own Cross To Bear If She Can't Be The Perfect Clone Of The Male Superman And The Perfect Clone Of The Feminine Mystique.

What Had Really Caused The Women's Movement Was The Additional Years Of Human Life. At The Turn Of The Century Women's Life Expectancy Was Forty-six; Now It Was Nearly Eighty. Our Groping Sense That We Couldn't Live All Those Years In Terms Of Motherhood Alone Was "the Problem That Had No Name." Realizing That It Was Not Some Freakish Personal Fault But Our Common Problem As Women Had Enabled Us To Take The First Steps To Change Our Lives.