>It is precisely in advanced Western society, which attempts to improve or surpass nature and which holds up individualism and self-realization as a model, that the stark facts of woman's condition emerge with painful clarity. The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy, the more she develops her imagination, the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical laws of her own body. And the more nature will punish her: do not dare to be free! For your body does not belong to you. -Camille Paglia