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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Source: The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation, ch. 1 (1972).
-- Midge Decter, (Jul 25 1927-____), US journalist, writer; She was executive director for the Committee for Free World, 1980-90; her writings include Liberal Parents, Radical Children, 1975.

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