Jessie Bernard quotes
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“No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.”
-- Jessie BernardSource : Jessie Bernard (1975). “The future of motherhood”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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“Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy in a relationship which imposes so many impediments on her, as traditional marriage does, women must be slightly mentally ill”
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“There are two marriages, then, in every marital union, his and hers. And his ... is better than hers.”
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“The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do so--concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.”
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.”
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Source : "Wikipedia At 15: The Struggle To Attract Non-Techy Geeks". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 15, 2016.
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“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”
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