She started diminishing when she hit seventy and now, fourteen years later, her feet don't touch the ground when she leans back in the swing. I kick the front of the swing every few minutes to keep it swaying. You know, it's like you don't have to be ashamed that Daddy balanced the checkbook and paid the bills. Women today can be anything. They can control the finances or let their life partner be the breadwinner, they can stay home and raise children, or hit the glass ceiling.
Women are independent, confident writers now, Mom.
But they still have human weaknesses and don't have to be self-empowered to be able to say something. Mazza says women can love until they hurt someone, turn their own hurt into love, refuse to love, or even ignore the notion of love completely. She defines postfeminist writing as literature that says we don't have to be superhuman anymore. I tell her she's out of touch with modern women. His mother molested his sister because the mother was a lesbian and thought an unpleasant sexual experience with a woman would prevent the disease of lesbianism from spreading to her daughter.