Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows ...

Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.
 Joanna Russ

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As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.
 Joanna Russ
Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.
 Joanna Russ