I just want to find out what you want from life, that's all. Oh, aside from raising Danny,...

Dr. Edward Hewitt: I just want to find out what you want from life, that's all. Laura Reynolds: Oh, aside from raising Danny, most of all I want to know myself, to be myself. I won't have a chance to do that if I spend my life playing the matrimony game, which was rigged before I was even born. Dr. Edward Hewitt: "Rigged"? Laura Reynolds: Of course it's rigged. It always has been. First 20 years of a girl's life, she gets so used to going to the same schools as the boys, taking the same classes, living in the same world with him. She can't get it through that square little head of hers that she isn't his absolute equal. Dr. Edward Hewitt: Which, of course, she is. Laura Reynolds: Just wait until they get married, and then see what happens. The man enters into a professional life. The woman becomes an unpaid domestic servant. So there goes your equality. What good does all that education do except make her unhappy? Dr. Edward Hewitt: Well, perhaps it's something to fall back on when her beauty fades and her husband turns to a younger woman. Laura Reynolds: I wasn't talking about you or any individual man. I was talking about men as a group. Dr. Edward Hewitt: I know, but most women who become homemakers are not necessarily miserable. Laura Reynolds: I didn't say miserable. I say they're unfulfilled. Look, a man is always a husband, and a father, and something else, like a doctor. A woman is a wife, and a mother, and what else? A nothing. The "nothing" is the thing that kills her. And you don't care. You want her to stay just the way she is. Fertile and unfulfilled, then in her place. Dr. Edward Hewitt: *Who* wants this? Laura Reynolds: Oh, creatures like you, judges like Thompson. All the doctors, the President. The whole male establishment. Every last one of you. Dr. Edward Hewitt: You make it sound like one enormous conspiracy. Laura Reynolds: Well, of course, it is. Ever since Adam stool-pigeoned on Eve.