“What has been sad for many women of my generation,” Jackie told Steinem, “is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. There they were, with the highest education, and what were they to do when the children were grown—watch the raindrops coming down the windowpane? Leave their fine minds unexercised?… You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: ‘Complete use of one’s faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope.’ It applies to women as well as to men. We can’t all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some
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