Ellen Feldman Quotes

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.

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