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...When Guyton first got to Radcliffe from Jackson, Miss., she enjoyed telling people that she wanted to be a housewife--partly because she really did want to be a housewife, but partly for the "shock effect...
...Guyton is one of Radcliffe's best-known athletes. She started out as a freshman on the swim team, branched out, and now as a senior is captain of both the Radcliffe water polo team and the basketball team. On the two days a week when she doesn't have team practice, she plays in House sports like volleyball and coed touch football...
...guys would sometimes react favorably," Guyton recalls, "but the girls would always have really violent reactions. I would say to them. 'But I like to cook and sew.' And they would just yell at me. 'But you can't, you just can't do that...
...Guyton disliked those women "violently," she says with a hint of exasperation in her smile. And she was also annoyed by the Northerners she encountered who made fun of her Southern ways...
...Guyton attributes her conservative attitude toward "women's lib" to her Southern upbringing. She says that enough of the "propaganda" at Harvard has "seeped through" so that she is now intent on pursuing a career as a doctor, but she still retains a firm belief in what she calls "chivalry...