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...dilemma; at 22, motherhood is easy to devalue. The rush that comes from closing a million-dollar deal, getting the corner office or winning collegial respect has an immediate appeal that mountains of diapers and twelve years of PTA do not. Not just men or the marketplace but the sisterhood as well came to believe that the only jobs worth pursuing are paid and the only accomplishments worth having are ones that enhance a resume. In last winter's alumni magazine, Wellesley graduate Mary Morrow wrote about how her classmates responded to her decision to combine college with motherhood with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Love Got to Do with It? | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...kind of biased, but I think there's a natural sisterhood in having an all female cast," she says. "I think it makes the relationship on stage flow better, because that sisterhood and commonality is already there...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Forming Female Bonds, Performing the Bard | 4/20/1990 | See Source »

Make that the response to the response. As an annoyed Scorsese points out, "Ninety-nine percent of the people who are complaining have not seen the picture." Many complainers are instead responding to a bootleg copy of an outdated script, circulated by the Sisterhood of Mary, a group of ultra- conservative Protestant women. That version contained the egregious line, which is not in the movie, spoken by Jesus to Mary Magdalene: "God sleeps between your legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Holy Furor | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

Funeral services for Strauss were held yesterday at 1 p.m. at the Sisterhood Chapel at Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo, New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1983 Harvard Graduate Found Dead in Ohio | 8/12/1988 | See Source »

...business last week, offering a menu of beef Bourguignon, chicken-and-rice casserole, salad, green beans, corn, chocolate cheesecake and peaches. But "food is not really what we're serving here," explained one of the founders, the Rev. A.B. Short. "What we're serving is friendship, hospitality, brotherhood and sisterhood." Translation: the cafe, launched by the nonprofit Community of Hospitality, is in the business of helping the homeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlanta: A Cafe for the Homeless | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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