One of Spain's foremost feminist thinkers reflects on her own life from the point of view of gender. This is an autobiography that discusses how it is possible for an intelligent, clear thinking, and talented woman, to end up living in the shadow of her husband, with little freedom, subject to decisions she doesn't agree with and having to give up professional success in order to look after the children. Everything that wasn't going to happen, happened. And she tells it like it is, with total directness. This honest and ironic story does not just show the social side, what everyone else can see and have an opinion about, but it also gives a meticulous emotional account of marriage and motherhood that transcends social class. Disbelief, powerlessness, frustration, anguish, blame, and rage are the emotions that women have lived with for centuries but they have never been sufficiently chronicled.