Feminism: The Ugly Truth

To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable, that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Now this may be partly to finance higher standards of living, but many of these women work to help pay for the necessities of life, not for luxuries. What might account for this astonishing turn of events? In the course of half a century we’ve moved from a situation in which most working-class women could afford not to work, to a situation where many middle-class women must work.