Helen Garner on how she was forced to reexamine her feminist beliefs:
Like most people I functioned from day to day on a set of assumptions that I was rarely forced to examine: the adjustments I made under pressure of events were semi-conscious and usually motivated by a desire to avoid taxing mental activity. I was still skating along on ice that had
Helen Garner, The First Stone
frozen in the early seventies. But now I felt I was on the verge of finding out things that would cause an upheaval in my whole belief-structure, particularly where men and women were concerned, and the way power shifts between
them.
This is true regarding how most people’s brains function. They grasp on to a pithy, easy-to-remember statement, and it’s next to impossible to pry them away from this beloved platitude.
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