Word: motherhood
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Perhaps the most appealing-though on reflection disquieting- glimpses that TV reruns give us are of wifehood, motherhood and family life, back when those alone were supposed to make a woman happy. Even before Little Ricky's birth, for example, Lucy Ricardo stayed home as a housewife. Her urge to take a job and fulfill ambitions of her own was considered one of the wackier aspects of her humor. Lucy's contemporary Peg Riley (in William Bendix's The Life of Riley, 1953-58) stayed home too, despite the constant money worries stemming from Riley...
...more like the environmental movement of the 1970s than the antiwar movement of the 1960s," says Robert Neuman, director of communications for the Democratic National Committee. "It is confrontational, and will probably not become a Democratic or Republican issue." Says Republican Political Consultant David Keene: "It's like motherhood and apple pie. Who's going to be in favor of nuclear...
...reassuring to see that women, particularly those who are highly accomplished, have not become so obsessed with attaining career goals that they have lost sight of the glory and dignity of motherhood...
...congenial dissenter, Roy Brooks, rose to speak. "Being against this," said the retired Army colonel, "is like being opposed to motherhood and apple pie. But it is pretty silly for us to be advising the country on foreign policy." Brooks was no longer smiling. "Those people who are pushing for it are the same people who argued for unilateral disarmament. They want us to roll over on our backs like a defeated dog and say everything will go on happily ever after." Bernard Friedelson, a businessman, was anything but defeatist in his rebuttal. Said he: "To reverse the trend toward...
There are many times that are not right for motherhood. For some people no time is ever the one for motherhood. But sometimes a woman's body will act against her, without her, and it is then that she must choose either to let it direct her or to take the way she had planned all along...