(Be a shrew and ruin yourself, too, how about it?) ( )
(Don’t expect much help.)Īre you lonely? Good! This shows that you have Feminine Incompleteness get married and do all your husband’s personal services, buck him up when he’s low, teach him about sex (if he wants you to), praise his technique (if he doesn’t), have a family if he wants a family, follow him if he changes cities, get a job if he needs you to get a job, and this too goes on seven days a week, fifty-two weeks a year forever and ever amen unless you find yourself a divorcee at thirty with (probably two) small children. You can’t unite woman and human any more than you can unite matter and anti-matter they are designed to not to be stable together and they make just as big an explosion inside the head of the unfortunate girl who believes in both.ĭo you enjoy playing with other people’s children-for ten minutes? Good! This reveals that you have Maternal Instinct and you will be forever wretched if you do not instantly have a baby of your own (or three or four) and take care of that unfortunate victimized object twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, fifty-two weeks a year, for eighteen years, all by yourself. How am I to put this together with my human life, my intellectual life, my solitude, my transcendence, my brains, and my fearful, fearful ambition? I failed miserably and thought it was my own fault. There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference training, the dependency training, the passivity training, the rivalry training, the stupidity training, the placation training. …I wept aloud, I wrung my hands, crying: I am a poet! I am Shelley! I am a genius! … Lady, your slip’s showing. Publisher: Orion Publishing Co ISBN: 9781399607759 Number of pages: 224 Weight: 206 g Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 20 mm You may also be interested in.I confess I couldn't get into this the way I anticipated (and I tried twice), but there were some quotable bits: Welcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction 'It's a gorgeous book, frankly, and well worth any reader's time' - Tor.com 'She was brilliant in a way that couldn't be denied'- The New Yorker It's also screamingly funny' - San Francisco Review of Books 'A stunning book, a work to be read with great respect.
Award and a 2002 Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame award. And they find themselves looking at their own worlds with new eyes.Īcclaimed as one of the essential works of science fiction, The Female Man examines gender roles in society and remains a work of great power. When these women are suddenly able to communicate with each other through the boundaries of dimensions, they are confronted with what could have been if one thing changed in history. Four women, four worlds, four vastly different societies.
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