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Essay #1: The Double Standard of Aging. "Both sexes aspire to a physical ideal, but what is expected of boys and what is expected of girls involves a very different moral relation to the self. Boys are encouraged to develop their bodies, to regard the body as an instrument to be improved. (...) The ideal woman's body is one that is not much of practical use, one that must continually 'be defended'."
— Dec 26, 2024 12:05AM
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The first responsibility of a "liberated" woman is to lead the fullest, freest, and most imaginative life she can. The second responsibility is her solidarity with other women. She may live and work and make love with men. But she has no right to represent her situation as simpler, or less suspect, or less full of compromises than it really is.
— Dec 26, 2024 07:46AM
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Essay #1: The Double Standard of Aging. "Both sexes aspire to a physical ideal, but what is expected of boys and what is expected of girls involves a very different moral relation to the self. Boys are encouraged to develop their bodies, to regard the body as an instrument to be improved. (...) The ideal woman's body is one that is not much of practical use, one that must continually 'be defended'."
— Dec 26, 2024 12:05AM
