"...the Marquise du Chatelet brought a unique perspective to a treatise she titled 'Discourse on Happiness.'
To be truly happy, she ruefully concluded, "one must be susceptible to illusions, for it is to illusions that we owe the majority of our pleasures. Unhappy is the one who has lost them."
So where are we nearly three centuries later?
Are Modern Women Miserable? | Reproductive Justice and Gender | AlterNet