"You may be hitched to one of the creatures we call 'Western man'," Adlai Stevenson advised the Smith Class of 1955, "and I think part of your job is to keep him Western, to keep him truly purposeful, to keep him whole."

That's Louis Menand, quoting Adlai Stevenson in a piece about Betty Friedan in the New Yorker, Jan 24, 2011.

Seems I'm suddenly reading a lot about feminism again, one week after brunching with a group of Wellesley gals, feminists all. Cosmos trying to tell me something?