Jessie Bernard Quotes

• There are two marriages, then, in every marital union, his and hers. And his ... is better than hers.

  Jessie Bernard

  Two, Unions

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• Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy in a relationship which imposes so many impediments on her, as traditional marriage does, women must be slightly mentally ill

  Jessie Bernard

  Sick, Doe, May

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• No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.

  Jessie Bernard

  Children, Home, Motherhood

  Jessie Bernard (1975). “The future of motherhood”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do so--concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.

  Jessie Bernard

  Jobs, Motherhood, Careers

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