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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.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Jessie Bernard

Jessie Bernard

Born: June 8, 1903
Died: October 6, 1996 (aged 93)
Bio: Jessie Shirley Bernard was a sociologist and noted feminist scholar. She was a persistent forerunner of feminist thought in American sociology and her life's work is characterized as extraordinarily productive spanning several intellectual and political eras.
Known for:
  1. Future of parenthood (1972)
  2. Women, wives, mothers (1975)
  3. Women and the public interest (1971)
  4. The female world (1981)
  5. Jessie Bernard Reader

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