Stevenson Act

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“So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

“Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daughters: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters’ potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.”
—Elizabeth Debold (20th century)