J.G. BallardFirst she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage.
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In a society where a woman can have a baby, have a career and have a husband, the ideal marriage would be to have a baby, get a divorce and marry her child's biological father. The idea of getting a baby's father's consent to her being pregnant is an outdated notion. It is the same as saying that she should have been able to kill him while he was still in the womb. In fact, this statement suggests that women are incapable of any sort of violent or dangerous behavior. In other words, she could not possibly ever want to kill him while he was still in the womb.
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