I Knew One Thing. I Did Not

Feminism Or The Family? Carried To Excess Maybe. I Have Insisted That Women Cannot Be Defined Solely In Those Terms. But For A Great Many Women - Not All, Because We Are Only Beginning To Realize And Affirm The Diversity Of Women Themselves - Choosing Motherhood Makes Motherhood Itself A Liberating Choice.

Having Expressed The Rage Against The Laws And Conditions That Oppressed Them - Maybe Even Excess Anger In The Beginning Was Directed At Men They Came In Contact With, Because It Had Been Pent Up Too Long - Women Now Come From A New Position Of Easier, More Comfortable Self-affirmation And Empowerment. Women Are Given To Tolerance And Are More Able To Love. I Hope It Happens Also To Men.

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.

The Feminists Had Destroyed The Old Image Of Woman, But They Could Not Erase The Hostility, The Prejudice, The Discrimination That Still Remained.

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.