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In Almost Every Professional Field, In Business And In The Arts And Sciences, Women Are Still Treated As Second-class Citizens. It Would Be A Great Service To Tell Girls Who Plan To Work In Society To Expect This Subtle, Uncomfortable Discrimination-tell Them Not To Be Quiet, And Hope It Will Go Away, But Fight It. A Girl Should Not Expect Special Privileges Because Of Her Sex, But Neither Should She "adjust" To Prejudice And Discrimination.

Being Jewish, You Didn't Get Into A Sorority. So I Really Was Much More Outgoing And Gregarious. I Really Didn't Want To Spend An Emily Dickinson Adolescence Reading Poetry On Gravestones, Which I Did.

The Problem Lay Buried, Unspoken For Many Years In The Minds Of American Women. It Was A Strange Stirring, A Sense Of Dissatisfaction, A Yearning That Women Suffered In The Middle Of The Twentieth Century In The United States. Each Suburban Housewife Struggled With It Alone. As She Made The Beds, Shopped For Groceries, Matched Slipcover Material, Ate Peanut Butter Sandwiches With Her Children, Chauffeured Cub Scouts And Brownies, Lay Beside Her Husband At Night, She Was Afraid To Ask Even Of Herself The Silent Question - "is This All?"

Chosen Motherhood Is The Real Liberation. The Choice To Have A Child Makes The Whole Experience Of Motherhood Different, And The Choice To Be Generative In Other Ways Can At Last Be Made, And Is Being Made By Many Women Now, Without Guilt.

If Women’s Role In Life Is Limited Solely To Housewife/mother, It Clearly Ends When She Can No Longer Bear More Children And The Children She Has Borne Leave Home.