The death of my sister and the work of my foundation ... have both shown me something about women in America, women of all ages. Young women in their twenties are "afraid of life" or they are just the opposite sexually liberated but mentally cloudy. Middle aged women "hide" in traditional situations: the spinster, the mom, the childless married woman. Older women (and I will be discreet in terms of numbers because "older" can actually refer to any age, depending on the state of mind) are tied to their family tradition, or their memories of an earlier happier time (rose-colored glasses syndrome), or the depression of ongoing life ("help me Jesus").
So women are hiding -- not all but I would say "most" of the women in my acquaintance. What of it?
What difference does it make? Who cares, as you might say?
The world cares -- civilization needs their active input more than it needs an army of menials, a sea of serfs, a gaggle of distracted cluckers. The reason we have Trump's and Putin's and Harvey Weinsteins's is that women are not "present" to life now, and to the future.
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