A Strange Stirring Quotes

“It is pointless to construct a hierarchy of who hurt more, and whether one kind of pain was more or less justified than another.”
― Stephanie Coontz, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique & American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

“Despite the rhetorical reverence our society accords motherhood and fatherhood, in reality the everyday work of parenting garners little social respect and even less practical support.”
― Stephanie Coontz, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique & American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

“Up until 1900, more than half the graduates from women's colleges remained single, many of them carving out careers in new fields such as social work.”
― Stephanie Coontz, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique & American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s