When She Stopped Conforming To

I Never Set Out To Write A Book To Change Women's Lives, To Change History. It's Like, 'who, Me?' Yes, Me. I Did It. And I'm Not That Different From Other Women. Maybe My Power And Glory Was That I Could Speak My Truth As A Woman And It Was The Truth Of Every Woman.

While I Had Been, I Guess, Quite Brilliant, Academically, In My College Years, I Also Had Been Editor Of The Paper, And I Loved That. And, That Was A Much More Active Thing. And I Missed It When I Was Doing Graduate Work.

If You Were Very Bright And You Became Head Of A Department, As I Did, Of The Psychology Department, You Were Encouraged To Go On To Graduate Work. But As A Women You Didn't Even Think About Discrimination.

Being Jewish, You Didn't Get Into A Sorority. So I Really Was Much More Outgoing And Gregarious. I Really Didn't Want To Spend An Emily Dickinson Adolescence Reading Poetry On Gravestones, Which I Did.

Men, Also, Have In Them Enormous Capacities That They Have To Repress And Fear In Themselves, Living Up To This Obsolete And Brutal Man-eating, Bear-killing, Ernest Hemingway, Crewcut Prussian Sadistic, Napalm All The Children In Vietnam, Bang-bang You're Dead, Image Of Masculinity, The Image Of All Powerful Masculine Superiority That Is Absolute.