Sublime

"we are unwilling to expose our country to free communication with the rest of the world—as yet.

crowded picture of the world and all its activities.

These women, whose essential distinction of motherhood was the dominant note of their whole culture, were strikingly deficient in what we call "femininity."

MAN!

quiet—and women are cautious.

The boldest theories of the human reason were put into practice by a community so humble that not a statesman condescended to attend to it; and a legislation without a precedent was produced offhand by the imagination of the citizens.

This kind of happiness, of pleasure fulfillment and fulfillment of purpose, is missing for a great number of American women. That’s not because women don’t pleasure-seek or fail to find meaning in their lives; it’s because even though the concept of happiness is written into the founding document of the United States, it wasn’t meant for us.

Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Simone de Beauvoir.