Few pretty and privileged young women really understand the essential injustice of biology... For most of her life as a woman, the rules were perfectly clear-cut: other women were the enemy, and all love was war. She had rejected feminism, quite openly, as a crutch for the envious and ugly, and regarded married women as holding the upper hand if, unlike her own mother, they had any strength of character. The weaknesses and dependencies imposed by fecundity had never entered into her calculations.