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Why The Increasing Emphasis By Professional Age Experts And The Media On - And Public Acceptance Of - The Nursing Home As The Locus Of Age When, In Fact, More Than Ninety Percent Of Those Over Sixty-five Continue To Live In The Community?

If Divorce Has Increased By One Thousand Percent, Don't Blame The Women's Movement. Blame The Obsolete Sex Roles On Which Our Marriages Were Based.

The Only Kind Of Work Which Permits An Able Woman To Realize Her Abilities Fully, To Achieve Identity In Society In A Life Plan That Can Encompass Marriage And Motherhood, Is The Kind That Was Forbidden By The Feminine Mystique, The Lifelong Commitment To An Art Or Science, To Politics Or Profession. If Divorce Has Increased By One Thousand Percent, Don't Blame The Women's Movement. Blame The Obsolete Sex Roles On Which Our Marriages Were Based.

It Was The Era That I Later Analyzed, The "feminine Mystique" Era, [when] "career Woman" Was A Dirty Word. And So I Didn't Want A Career Anymore. [but] I Had To Do Something. So I Started Freelancing For Women's Magazines.

The Feminists Had Destroyed The Old Image Of Woman, But They Could Not Erase The Hostility, The Prejudice, The Discrimination That Still Remained.