Source: Sommers, Christina Hoff (1994), Who Stole Feminism, How Women Have Betrayed Women. Simon & Schuster

If this book was a country it would Iraq during a time of war.

Quote: "Consider how Pratricia Ireland, the president of NOW, speaks of her seven years as a flight attendant for Pam Am: `I thought of myself as a professional, But what I really did was go down the aisle and take people's garbage and thank them for it. That's what women have been doing. We've been taking people's garbage and thanking them for it. We've got to stop.' Ms. Ireland is telling us how easy it is for woman to deceive themselves into thinking they are doing something when they are `really' doing something demeaning." (pg 43)

Explication: I chose this quote to represent Iraq during a war. What Ms. Ireland is saying is that she wishes to replace...