Status Updates From La rebelión de Atlas

"There is a reason, she thought, why a woman would wish to cook for a man...oh, not as a duty, not as a chronic career, only as a rare and special rite in symbol of...but what have they made of it, the preachers of woman's duty?...The castrated performance of a sickening drudgery was held to be a woman's proper virtue - while that which gave it meaning and sanction was held as a shameful sin" (710-1).