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“Smiling novices. I can hear the music of your laughter of joy. Learn, my children, to be holy, for true holiness consists of doing God's work with a smile.”
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“The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
“An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.”
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“Years later Lazar would recall questioning his mother as to who the people who shared his meals were. "Some are our relations," was the response, "But all of them are our people.”
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“It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?”
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