Believed that single motherhood was a desirable state?
Why would that be a particularly desirable state of affairs?
At certain points in modern lives, living alone is the more desirable state.
This seems an extremely desirable state of affairs, but it is also extremely anxiety-inducing.
However, I accept that is not how our society works, nor is it a desirable state of affairs.
He believes that the job which will enable him to achieve this desirable state will involve selling "either products or ideas".
Yet this is hardly a desirable state of affairs and more worryingly, our current culture in education will encourage increased atomisation, consumerism and contempt for public servants.
"When it has happened to me I have a few days of feeling, 'How could I be so gullible?' Then I realize gullibility is a desirable state because it means I'm open.
The chapter "On Not Getting It" begins to articulate this vision in literary terms, proposing the state of not "getting" a difficult poem by someone like JH Prynne as in fact a highly desirable state to be in.
Winging it in front of the news cameras, he observes that, while peace is of course a desirable state of affairs, it is sometimes necessary to climb "the mountain of conflict".
Just as he could never accept that a decent system of ethics would be more likely to arise in a school for mentally handicapped children than among any intellectual élite, no matter how attuned to the Transcendental, he could never accept that peace is not a principle, merely a desirable state of affairs.
