The one-fold path

From Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon:

If any of your friends are into obsessive natural childbirth I will give them full details, but I imagine, and certainly hope, that most of you will be finding life so exhilarating and full that you will have decided to have no babies at all, ever, and will be queuing up at the sterilization clinics, where fortunately the wait is long, and natural childbirth, the Leboyer method, and other male plots against the laboring female the last matter on your mind.

This book was published in the early eighties. I found this quote rather striking, even enjoyably horrifying. I think its underlying assumptions would be false for many.