Why The Increasing Emphasis By Professional Age

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.

I Won A Really Big Fellowship To Go Straight On To Get My Ph.d. And I Went Through Agonies Of Indecision, And Then I Decided Not To Accept It. I Just Decided I Didn't Want To Be An Academic.

I Understood Somehow My Mother's Frustration. And That It Was No Good Not Only For Her, But For Her Children Or Her Husband, That She Didn't Have A Real Use Of Her Ability.

...women Who 'adjust' As Housewives, Who Grow Up Wanting To Be 'just A Housewife,' Are In As Much Danger As The Millions Who Walked To Their Own Death In The Concentration Camps...they Ate Suffering A Slow Death Of Mind And Spirit.

Economic Equity Is An Enormous Empowerment Of Women. Having Jobs That Provide Income Means That Women Can Be A More Effective Force, A More Equal Force, In The Political Process. Women With Income Take Themselves More Seriously And They Are Taken More Seriously.