I Knew One Thing. I Did Not

Today The Problem That Has No Name Is How To Juggle Work, Love, Home And Children.

Over And Over Again, Stories In Women's Magazines Insist That Women Can Know Fulfillment Only At The Moment Of Giving Birth To A Child. They Deny The Years When She Can No Longer Look Forward To Giving Birth, Even If She Repeats The Act Over And Over Again. In The Feminine Mystique, There Is No Other Way For A Woman To Dream Of Creation Or Of The Future. There Is No Other Way She Can Even Dream About Herself, Except As Her Children's Mother, Her Husband's Wife.

There's No Question That The Black Middle Class Has Benefited Greatly By The Civil Rights Movement. But There Is A Large Black Underclass That Does Not Have Access To Jobs. If There's No Clear Road To Income And Status Except Crime, We Should Expect Social Problems. You Can't Solve This Problem Without Addressing The Economic Issues, And The Same Is True With Gender.

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