2 Quotes by Jessie Bernard

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.

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.