Marriage Made More Sense When It Was

Abandonment Of Slavery Is Also The Banishment Of The Chimera Of Security. The World Will Not Change Overnight, And Liberation Will Not Happen Unless Individual Women Agree To Be Outcasts, Eccentrics, Perverts, And Whatever The Powers-that-be Choose To Call Them.

Older Women Can Afford To Agree That Femininity Is A Charade, A Matter Of Colored Hair, Ecru Lace And Whalebones, The Kind Of Slap And Tat That Transvestites Are In Love With, And No More.

It [childbearing] Was Never Intended To Be As Time-consuming And Self-conscious A Process As It Is. One Of The Deepest Evils In Our Society Is Tyrannical Nurturance.

Women Who Were Housewives, Who Were Pretty Miserable ... Felt Inspired By Her Book And Their Life Changed. They Didn't Become Megastars, But They Became A Librarian Or Something. I've Heard Women Say Again And Again When The Subject Of Germaine Comes Up: 'well, Her Book Changed My Life For The Better.' And They'll Be Modest Women Living Pretty Ordinary Lives, But Better Lives.

The Housewife Is An Unpaid Worker In Her Husband's House In Return For The Security Of Being A Permanent Employee: Hers Is The Reductio Ad Absurdum Of The Employee Who Accepts A Lower Wage In Return For Permanence Of His Employment. But The Lowest Paid Employees Can Be And Are Laid Off, And So Are Wives. They Have No Savings, No Skills Which They Can Bargain With Elsewhere, And They Must Bear The Stigma Of Having Been Sacked.