" What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line."
"Would you act differently if you didn't have to worry about a baby?"
"Yes," I said, "but …" and I told Doctor Nolan about the married woman lawyer and her Defense of Chastity.
Doctor Nolan waited until I was finished. Then she burst out laughing. "Propaganda!" she said, and scribbled the name and address of this doctor on a prescription pad. "

― Sylvia Plath , The Bell Jar