We Demand Too Much Of Life, Too

When Liberals Finally Grasped The Strength Of Popular Feeling About The Family, They Cried To Appropriate The Rhetoric And Symbolism Of Family Values For Their Own Purposes.

In Our Society, Daily Experience Teaches The Individual To Want And Need A Never-ending Supply Of New Toys And Drugs.

The Hope Of A New Politics Does Not Lie In Formulating A Left-wing Reply To The Right-it Lies In Rejecting Conventional Political Categories.

Traditionalists Will Have To Master Techniques Of Sustained Activism Formerly Monopolized By The Left.

Once Women Begin To Question The Inevitability Of Their Subordination And To Reject The Conventions Formerly Associated With It, They Can No Longer Retreat To The Safety Of Those Conventions. The Woman Who Rejects The Stereotype Of Feminine Weakness And Dependence Can No Longer Find Much Comfort In The Clich? That All Men Are Beasts. She Has No Choice Except To Believe, On The Contrary, That Men Are Human Beings, And She Finds It Hard To Forgive Them When They Act Like Animals.