Today in the twenty-first century, women are held to high expectations. They are held to not only the expectations of their family and peers, but also they are held to the expectations of society itself. Women are expected to not only succeed in their career, but also to succeed in their love life. However, this is not always the case. In Leslie Bell’s “Selections From Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom”, Bell states, “today more women attend college than do men
objections to the grotesque nature of her fiction, faulting her lack of tenderness or compassion, O’Connor reminded them of her being incredibly judgemental God – a God who recognizes sin as such. She says that if one believes in Faith at all, sees it as something which can be a device of instant upliftment, then it is through compassion. But then by bestowing pity, one loses moral vision much to the loss of spiritual purity on one’s