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The Blind Conviction That We Have To Do Something About Other People's Reproductive Behavior, And That We May Have To Do It Whether They Like It Or Not, Derives From The Assumption That The World Belongs To Us, Who Have So Expertly Depleted Its Resources, Rather Than To Them, Who Have Not.

It Is Often Falsely Assumed, Even By Feminists, That Sexuality Is The Enemy Of The Female Who Really Wants To Develop These Aspects Of Her Personality, And This Is Perhaps The Most Misleading Aspect Of Movements Like The National Organization Of Women. It Was Not The Insistence Upon Her Sex That Weakened The American Woman Student's Desire To Make Something Of Her Education, But The Insistence Upon A Passive Sexual Role

If Female Liberation Is To Happen, If The Reservoir Of Real Female Love Is To Be Tapped, This Sterile Self-deception Must Be Counteracted. The Only Literary Form Which Could Outsell Romantic Trash On The Female Market Is Hard-core Pornography.

Women Over Fifty Already Form One Of The Largest Groups In The Population Structure Of The Western World. As Long As They Like Themselves, They Will Not Be An Oppressed Minority. In Order To Like Themselves They Must Reject Trivialization By Others Of Who And What They Are. A Grown Woman Should Not Have To Masquerade As A Girl In Order To Remain In The Land Of The Living.

Loneliness Is Never More Cruel Than When It Is Felt In Close Propinquity With Someone Who Has Ceased To Communicate.