โโWhy? I asked myself for days after our night in the kitchen. Why was my mother born with superior intelligence and extraordinary gifts as an organizer, an administrator, a financier and an artist if she was not meant by her creator to use those gifts fully? And why has she turned into a timid, frustrated woman? Because she was allowedโฆ only her family as an outlet. The family is a very narrow sphere. It is cruel to bottle up immense talents there. It isnโt fair Mama, what happened to you. Listen to those echoes: not fair, not fairโnot kind, not decent, not loving, not fair. Dad first saw her galloping bareback over the Idaho plains in menโs overalls. Where is that girl who galloped with her hair flying? That she is lost, that her gifts were ignored and spurned and pounded out of her is a cause for grief to those of us who know and love her. But multiply her life by the billions and try to keep from howling with rage and despair at the impoverishment that womenโs bondage has wreaked upon the human family.โโ
โ The actual diabolical lie told to women is that homemaking leads to happiness.
