Just As Darkness Is Sometimes

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

I Realized That What I Was Saying Was Threatening, Somehow, To The Editors Of Women's Magazines. That It Threatened The Very World They Were Trying To Paint, What I Then Called The "feminine Mystique."

The Problem Lay Buried, Unspoken For Many Years In The Minds Of American Women. It Was A Strange Stirring, A Sense Of Dissatisfaction, A Yearning That Women Suffered In The Middle Of The Twentieth Century In The United States. Each Suburban Housewife Struggled 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?"

I Have Discovered That There Is A Crucial Difference Between Society's Image Of Old People And 'us' As We Know And Feel Ourselves To Be.

The Situation Of Women And Men Is Not Comparable To Worker-boss Or Black And White.