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Wellesley girls have become
quite adept at balancing obligations.
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One hears such comments as:
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"I'm able to baste the chicken
with one hand
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and outline the paper with the other"
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While our mothers were called
to work for Lady Liberty
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it is our duty, nay, obligation to
reclaim our place in the home
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bearing the children that will carry
our traditions into the future.
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One must pause to consider why
Miss Katherine Watson
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instructor in the Art History department
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has decided to declare war on
the holy sacrament of marriage.
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Her subversive and political teachings
encourage our Wellesley girls
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to reject the roles
they were born to fill
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thank you
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Slide.
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Contemporary art.
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That's just an advertisement.
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Quiet!
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Today you just listen.
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What will the future scholars see
when they study us?
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A portrait of women today?
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There you are, ladies.
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The perfect likeness of
a Wellesley graduate.
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Magna cum laude, doing exactly
what she was trained to do.
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Slide
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A Rhodes scholar.
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I wonder if she recites Chaucer while
she presses her hunsband's shirts.
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Slide
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Now, you physics majors can calculate
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the mass and volume of every
meal loaf you make.
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Slide.
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A girdle to set you free.
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What does that mean!?
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What does that mean?
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I give up.
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You win
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The smartest women in the country
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I didn't realise that
by demanding excellence
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I would be challenging...
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What did it say?
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"The roles you were born to fill"
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Is that right?
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The roles you were born to fill?
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It's my mistake
