Women of the World Unite: You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Freedom and Dignity.
“Two paradises ’twere in one To live in paradise alone” Reading those lines from “the Garden,” an incautious reader might imagine that the poet—Andrew Marvell—did not limit his Puritan tendencies to theology and politics but hated womankind with the fury of a John Knox. In fact, Marvell was a woman-loving man who wrote several of the best erotic (I don’t mean dirty!) poems in English. God bless him: He was only a hypocrite. Marvell’s lines came to mind when I read news of the feminist plans to mark today’s international celebration of women by refusing to go to work. At first...