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“Children crawl before they walk, walk before they runeach generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step awayeach a small separation, a small distancing.”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)
“Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by the childrens imminent or actual departurefathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husbands distress”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)
“Its true, as Marya Mannes says: No one believes [a womans] time to be sacred. A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)
“For me, its enough! Theyve been here long enoughmaybe too long. Its a funny thing, though. All these years Fred was too busy to have much time for the kids, now hes the one whos depressed because theyre leaving. Hes really having trouble letting go. He wants to gather them around and keep them right here in this house.”
—Anonymous Parent. As quoted in Women of a Certain Age, by Lillian B. Rubin, ch. 2 (1979)
“That myththat image of the madonna-motherhas disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are more than mothers. It has kept us from hearing their voices when they try to tell us their aspirations . . . kept us from believing that they share with men the desire for achievement, mastery, competencethe desire to do something for themselves.”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)
“Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in womenthe quality of shifting from child to woman, the seeming helplessness one moment and the utter self-reliance the next that baffle us, that seem most difficult to understand. These are the qualities that make her a mystery, the qualities that provoked Freud to complain, What does a woman want?”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)