After practicing law for five years, I gave birth to our first child and devoted myself to childrearing and homemaking. When our three daughters were grown, I occasionally did legal consulting and then began to write and speak on feminism and the family, regarding this as community service. I feel privileged to call myself a housewife because my husband, family, and home have given me the greatest satisfactions in my life, which I declined to diminish by returning to the workplace.
Far from wasting my education, I used it to resist the cultural forces steering me back into the workforce and to create an interesting and satisfying life. My marriage of fifty-four years to a law school classmate is my career. I do not need an office to give structure and meaning to my life, I never had to cope
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