Thank you. I am a Christian feminist who lived through the 60s and 70s. I see this as a story of a very confused person. She was anti-feminist. Yet, she lived as a feminist. She propelled herself forward in, at that time, a man's world. She was a contradiction in working for Vogue and for National Review. She was Christian without a Christian belief system. She had an abortion yet covered it up. Money was her God. She had no compassion for others. She could not feel for others.

This deleterious bifurcation created confusion in her mind. Thus, her psychiatric conditions included “profound — crippling — social-anxiety disorder” and a "nervous breakdown".

This causes me to have a bit of sympathy for a person who I would otherwise consider malevolent. As they say, all of her money could not buy her happiness. She may have laughed but she did not feel it. I can see this because she could not feel love for her husband or for anyone else. She felt nothing but pain and fear. She feared that she would not survive. Therefore, she sought money to ensure her survival. To me, she did not live. She only struggled to survive throughout her life.

Her story is a very sad story and one that I see happening with many people. People with great wealth often do not experience the pleasure that they think money will give them. They know that something is missing. They become bored, addicted, or depressed. They seek power and more wealth but it is never satisfying because they miss the personal honesty, humanity, and spirituality that are satisfying.