When Pat Schroeder, a Harvard Law graduate, ran for office in 1972, the headlines read “Housewife” or “Mother” runs for Congress. When facing one indignant male colleague after another who demanded how she could be both a member of Congress and a mother, she said, “Because I have a brain and a uterus and both work.
-Myra MacPherson
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