The Family Wage Has Been

The Left Has Come To Regard Common Sense - The Traditional Wisdom And Folkways Of The Community - As An Obstacle To Progress And Enlightenment.

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.

I Despise The Cowardly Clinging To Life, Purely For The Sake Of Life, That Seems So Deeply Ingrained In The American Temperament.

It Is A Tribute To The Peculiar Horror Of Contemporary Life That It Makes The Worst Features Of Earlier Times -- The Stupefaction Of The Masses, The Obsessed And Driven Lives Of The Bourgeoisie -- Seem Attractive By Comparison.

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.