This essay is an homage and COVID-era update to to Judy Brady’s classic satirical feminist manifesto, “I Want a Wife,” which originated as a speech at a San Francisco protest in 1970. This essay appeared in the first issue of Ms. in 1971.
Author: Maggie Trinkle
Maggie Trinkle is CFO of Sky Island Alliance, a conservation nonprofit, and is a Tucson Public Voices Fellow. She has been divorced for over ten years, and has two enjoyable, lovely teenagers that will soon be a part of society.