“One grand fallacy of the women's movement: Expecting work to mean "power" and "self-fulfillment."”
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 232.
“One of the grand fallacies of our time is that something beneficial should be subsidized.”
Cutting the Budget
1980s–1990s, Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays (1987)
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