Wolf & Beauvoir

"Making a fortune and bearing thirteen children – no human being could stand it. Consider the facts, we said. First there are nine months before the baby is born. Then the baby is born. Then there are three or four months spent in feeding the baby. After the baby is fed there are certainly five years spent in playing with the baby. You cannot, it seems, let children run about the streets. People who have seen them running wild in Russia say that the sight is not a pleasant one. People say, too, that human nature takes its shape in the years between one and five." What is the problem for woman? As Wolf points out, the problem with women inability to be as dominant as a man, in areas of economic may be due to their body, theirs being the one which nourishes and bares the a baby. Another problem may be the laws which make the woman the dependent on a man. "a deprecating, silvery, kindly gentleman, who regretted in a low voice as he waved me back that ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction." Or the stereotype which most woman do live by "What had our mothers been doing then that they had no wealth to leave us? Powdering their noses? Looking in at shop windows? Flaunting in the sun at Monte Carlo?" Although Beauvoir do not agree that there is a problem for woman, she speaks of a myth that is created. The myth which Beauvior speaks of describes the myth of female being the second sex, while Wolf does not speak of the problems which she points out as myth but as truths that explains the categorization of the female sex.