Men Are Not The Enemy, But The

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.

Each Suburban Wife Struggles With It Alone. As She Made The Beds, Shopped For Groceries, Matched Slipcover Material, Ate Peanut Butter Sandwiches With Her Children, Chauffeured Cub Scouts And Brownies, Lay Beside Her Husband At Night- She Was Afraid To Ask Even Of Herself The Silent Question-- 'is This All?

When [the] Life Span Of America Women Is Approaching Eighty Years Having Kids Is Not Going To Take It Up.

I Knew One Thing. I Did Not Want To Be A Mommy Like Mommy.

You Have To Say No To The Old Ways Before You Can Begin To Find The New Yes You Need.