Goebbels was proud to be giving his first speech to women after taking charge of the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. The woman in public life today is no different than the women of the past. No one who understands the modern age would have the crazy idea of driving women from public life, from work, profession, and breadwinning. The best place for the woman to serve her people is in her marriage, in the family, in motherhood. From Goebbels’ glorification of motherhood to today’s evangelical calls for female submission, authoritarian leaders return again and again to the domestic sphere, treating women’s bodies as resources of the state.