The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. - Germaine Greer

Women's work, married or unmarried, is menial and low paid. Women's right to possess property is curtailed, more if they are married. How can marriage provide security? In any case a husband is a possession which can be lost or stolen and the abandoned wife of thirty odd with a couple of children is far more desolate and insecure in her responsibility than an unmarried woman with or without children ever could be.

If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable
destiny but as a privilege to be worked for, the way a man might
work for the right to have a family, children might grow up without
the burden of gratitude for the gift of life which they never asked
for.

This sequel to The Female Eunuch is the book I said I would never write.