Otis Johnson/political Career

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    That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbisms does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.
    —Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901–1979)

    Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    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.
    Jessie Bernard (20th century)