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She tries to get through the domestic chores by midmorning, and then turns to the typewriter, only to combat phone calls and visits (frequently from "runaway wives and their troubled husbands"). Though Down Among the Women has had considerable critical success in England, Fay Weldon cannot see herself becoming writer-activist of the Women's Liberation movement. She does refuse to wear a wedding ring, regarding it as a symbolic insult to other women, but she does not subscribe to all the secondary rituals of Women's Lib. For one thing, she thoroughly enjoys being called "Mrs."