Gretchen

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That knowledge is something society will try to squash, because women who don’t stay put cannot be controlled. All the institutions benefit if they stay: The heterosexual marriage, for which they carry laundry baskets and the emotional labor. The underpaying jobs, where they do their assigned tasks and are expected to organize the birthday cupcakes in the meeting room, too. The parenting, in which they still change most of the diapers regardless of who “brings home the bacon”—and
She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
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