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1 " The official line is that, after the war, women couldn't wait to leave the offices and assembly lines and government agencies. But the real story was that the economy couldn't have men coming home without women going home, not unless it wanted a lot of unemployed vets. So the problem became unemployed women. "How you gonna keep us down on the farm after we've seen the world,"' she ad-libs to the old World War I tune. 'Enter the women's magazines, and cookbook publishers, and all these advertising agencies carrying on about the scourge of germs in the toilet bowl, and scuffs on the kitchen floor, and, my favorite, house B.O. Enter chicken hash that takes two and a half hours to prepare. I can just hear them sitting around the conference tables. 'That'll keep the gals out of trouble. "
― Ellen Feldman , Next to Love
2 " Love may endure a lifetime, but it is less reliable on a day-to-day basis. "
― Ellen Feldman
3 " A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in her eyes, to have an ideal, to speak and act in defiance of convention. "
― Ellen Feldman , Terrible Virtue
4 " There's no logic to intolerance. "
― Ellen Feldman , Paris Never Leaves You
5 " No one but a fool would try to erase the past. The only hope was to guard against it. "
6 " So this was the way they got to you in America. No roundups, no camps, merely insidious cruelty to your children. "
