This is what a woman wants...
Continuing some thoughts on “A Woman’s Story,” I’m bringing Rose-Marie Miller, author of From Fear to Freedom, and great teller of the good news of “Sonship” with her husband Jack Miller. Early in her book, she talks about the hope and the struggle offered by the women’s liberation movement of the 70’s:
Liv Ullman, quoted by Rose-Marie:
“But after choice there was a new set of rules, not necessarily tied to women’s liberation, because after liberation from authority followed pressure: all the new ideas crashing in on women who were not sure how to direct their new found independence. The liberated woman followed in the stream of others, who, equally liberated, said what everybody else was saying, read what everybody else was reading, conformed to that which everybody else conformed to.” (Liv Ullman, Choices)
Rose-Marie:
“Liv Ullman describes the frustrating consequences [of women’s liberation]. You become free from what and for what? For pressure? For a new set of rules laid down by dominating women who say they are liberated from dominating men? No, modern woman started out wanting to be free from pressure, and that freedom is what she must have. But it cannot come from inventing herself all over again. No one of us has that power. We are not God, and only God can make or remake that person.
“My sense is that most women today often unconsciously long for the kind of life that God wishes to give them.” [my emphasis] Rose-Marie Miller, From Fear to Freedom
