You're Only Young Once, But You Can

Many A Housewife Staring At The Back Of Her Husband's Newspaper, Or Listening To His Breathing In Bed Is Lonelier Than Any Spinster In A Rented Room.

There Has Come Into Existence, Chiefly In America, A Breed Of Men Who Claim To Be Feminists. They Imagine That They Have Understood What Women Want And That They Are Capable Of Giving It To Them. They Help With The Dishes At Home And Make Their Own Coffee In The Office, Basking The While In The Refulgent Consciousness Of Virtue. Such Men Are Apt To Think Of The True Male Feminists As Utterly Chauvinistic.

We Live In A True Chaos Of Contradicting Authorities, An Age Of Conformism Without Community, Of Proximity Without Communication.

Our Life-style Contains More Thanatos Than Eros, For Egotism, Exploitation, Deception, Obsession And Addiction Have More Place In Us Than Eroticism, Joy, Generosity And Spontaneity.

I Do Think That Women Could Make Politics Irrelevant; By A Kind Of Spontaneous Cooperative Action The Like Of Which We Have Never Seen; Which Is So Far From People’s Ideas Of State Structure Or Viable Social Structure That It Seems To Them Like Total Anarchy — When What It Really Is, Is Very Subtle Forms Of Interrelation That Do Not Follow Some Heirarchal Pattern Which Is Fundamentally Patriarchal. The Opposite To Patriarchy Is Not Matriarchy But Fraternity, Yet I Think It’s Women Who Are Going To Have To Break This Spiral Of Power And Find The Trick Of Cooperation.