Sublime

They were sisters, and as they grew, they grew together—not by competition, but by united action.

"and you must be desperately homesick."

but these women aren't WOMANLY.

You see, children were the—the RAISON D'ETRE in this country.

“Properly manipulated,” Dichter candidly explained to Friedan, “American housewives can be given the sense of identity, purpose, creativity, the self-realization, even the sexual joy they lack—by the buying of things.”

I snorted derision at this idea.

We talk fine things about women, but in our hearts we know that they are very limited beings—most of them.

And there, as years passed, this wonder-woman bore child after child, five of them—all girls.

(“What Freud mistook for her lack of civilization is woman’s lack of loyalty to civilization,” Lillian Smith observed.)