The Feminist Revolution Had To Be Fought

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.

In Almost Every Professional Field, In Business And In The Arts And Sciences, Women Are Still Treated As Second-class Citizens. It Would Be A Great Service To Tell Girls Who Plan To Work In Society To Expect This Subtle, Uncomfortable Discrimination-tell Them Not To Be Quiet, And Hope It Will Go Away, But Fight It. A Girl Should Not Expect Special Privileges Because Of Her Sex, But Neither Should She "adjust" To Prejudice And Discrimination.

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?"

The Media And Even, To Some Degree, Leaders Of Women's Organizations Don't Understand That The Women's Movement Is An Absolute Part Of Society Now. It Is In The Consciousness, It Is Taken For Granted. It Is Part Of The Way Women Look At Themselves, And Women Are Looked At.

I Wouldn't Be Satisfied With A Life Lived Solely On The Barricades. I Reserve My Right To Be Frivolous.