First Person Singular by Wendy Braitman

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The Rocky Road to Progress

February 3, 2011 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
– Gertrude Stein, Feb. 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946

2/6 UPDATE: Much thanks to a reader, Grace, who comments that she’s pretty sure this quote is from Gloria Steinem. It has also been attributed to Gertrude Stein, but given the time frame, Steinem makes so much more sense!

Image: from an installation by Sandy Skoglund. See her work at the McNay Museum.

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