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It Was The Era That I Later Analyzed, The "feminine Mystique" Era, [when] "career Woman" Was A Dirty Word. And So I Didn't Want A Career Anymore. [but] I Had To Do Something. So I Started Freelancing For Women's Magazines.

Strange New Problems Are Being Reported In The Growing Generations Of Children Whose Mothers Were Always There, Driving Them Around, Helping Them With Their Homework --an Inability To Endure Pain Or Discipline Or Pursue Any Self-sustained Goal Of Any Sort, A Devastating Boredom With Life.

Why The Increasing Emphasis By Professional Age Experts And The Media On - And Public Acceptance Of - The Nursing Home As The Locus Of Age When, In Fact, More Than Ninety Percent Of Those Over Sixty-five Continue To Live In The Community?

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.

It Is Easier To Live Through Someone Else Than To Complete Yourself. The Freedom To Lead And Plan Your Own Life Is Frightening If You Have Never Faced It Before. It Is Frightening When A Woman Finally Realizes That There Is No Answer To The Question 'who Am I' Except The Voice Inside Herself.