In 1988 I began writing about the catastrophic effects of women’s lib, at the time called the second wave of feminism, in which I saw the strong imprint of Karl Marx ’s idea of class conflict. None of my pronouncements have earned me as much derision as that one did, but I never considered modifying the prediction. I knew that had I been born in 1946 instead of 1936, I too might have been susceptible to the idea that there was something better than getting married and raising a family. But by then in my 50s, I felt pity and sorrow for the young women who fell for ideas about liberation that would release them from what I knew were the supreme privileges of womanhood. I hoped and waited for the culture to turn.

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