Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Needs Me?" The fuel of a free society is people freely pursuing some consuming interest, be it physics, poetry or plumbing. Nothing is more joyfully consuming than motherhood, but the proportion of any woman's life spent in motherhood is dropping fast. In 1890 the average woman lived 14 years after her last child turned 21; in 1961, between earlier marriage and longer life, the same period spans 30 years...
...main reason that feminism failed was its belated discovery of the fact that women need men and motherhood. Mary Bunting, who would shudder at comparison with Susan B. Anthony, stands first of all for the family. She proposes no all-front feminine attack on the business and professional fields of men. But in a society of early marriage, lightened housework and lengthened lives, she does deplore women who abdicate their obligation to put their brains and education to creative use. Marriage, motherhood, the fledging of children and possibly widowhood subject a woman's life to stressful changes...
...what sociologists call "a self-fulfilling prophecy." Marriage looks like salvation. Vague fears about the Bomb make it more so. What a girl expects from her education drops back from high goals of professional, intellectual or artistic attainment to a desire for "finish" and for the graces of motherhood...
...very obvious that she was expressing annoyance at finding us so close." The author's serenity at such moments is so complete that it is hard to remember that the clout came from one of the world's deadliest beasts, made even more dangerous by motherhood...
...what is at the end? The organ notes swell up. There will arrive a day of "the noblest and most just morality" once "the magnificent and enduring edifice of socialism" is built. There will be love of the socialist motherhood, "conscientious labor for the good of society-he who does not work, neither shall he eat"; "one for all and all for one"; "man is to man a friend, comrade and brother," and there is "honesty and truthfulness, moral purity, modesty and guilelessness in social and private life," and intellectuals will not be a group apart because all the masses...