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Jessie Bernard

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

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

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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.

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