Nora Ephron's A Few Words About Breast

In life everyone just lives day to day. There are very few who actually disconnect life from the past. particularly not every day is there a person who takes time to analyze how our society became what it is today. Everyday society changes for the better or for the worst but in every little change everyone adapts because there is nothing else to do but continue living. However some things in society should not be they way they are simply because power is the key to change and we all have power but somethings that need to be changed always go undiscovered. All are taught to live by equality. No man or women is greater than the next but that is not the case anymore. In wit women hold all power to our world but men are given the credit. For …show more content…
In fact from the beginning we are characterized based on gender. In Nora Ephron’s essay “A Few Words About Breasts” she agrees stating,“we were all tyrannized by a rigid set of rules that supposedly determined whether we were boys or girls”. To put in another way men are usually the breadwinners in the world. In a clear perspective to be a male in our society today means one has to maintain power. On the other hand to be a female in our world mean you don’t really have much to do or say with respect to some women. However it should be the other way around. Women hold the key to the world. In Margaret Atwood’s essay “The Female Body” she identifies the clear difference between male and female, “Each female body contains a female brain. Handy. Makes things work. Stick pins in it and you get amazing results. Old popular songs, Short circuits. Bad dreams...The male brain, now, that’s a different matter”. No one has really analyzed the difference between being male and female because we are all taught to live by equality. In truth there is a big difference between male and female. The female body is like a temple the only thing that women have control over is their body in our