Mary McCarthy said: "As for Women's Lib, it bores me. Of course I believe in equal pay and quality before the law and so on, but this whole myth about how different the world would have been if it had been female-dominated, about how there would have been no wars--and Women's Lib extremists actually belive these things--seems a complete fantasy to me. I've never noticed that women were less warlike than men. And in marriage, or for that matter between a woman and her love or between two lesbians or any other couple, an equal division of tasks is impossible--it's a judgment of Solomon. You really would have to slice the baby down the middle." (Gelderman, Mary McCarthy: A Life, p. 307.)
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