Today The Problem That Has No Name

Just As Darkness Is Sometimes Defined As The Absence Of Light, So Age Is Defined As The Absence Of Youth.

I Didn't Want To Be In A Situation Where I Was Broader Than The Boys, Which I Was, In The Academic World.

The Feminist Revolution Had To Be Fought Because Women Quite Simply Were Stopped At A State Of Evolution Far Short Of Their Human Capacity.

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 Only Kind Of Work Which Permits An Able Woman To Realize Her Abilities Fully, To Achieve Identity In Society In A Life Plan That Can Encompass Marriage And Motherhood, Is The Kind That Was Forbidden By The Feminine Mystique, The Lifelong Commitment To An Art Or Science, To Politics Or Profession. If Divorce Has Increased By One Thousand Percent, Don't Blame The Women's Movement. Blame The Obsolete Sex Roles On Which Our Marriages Were Based.