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As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.
Alva Myrdal
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Alva Myrdal
Age: 84 †
Born: 1902
Born: January 31
Died: 1986
Died: February 1
Diplomat
Politician
Sociologist
Swedish Politician
Writer
Uppsala domkyrkoförssamling
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Housewife
Suffering
Isolation
Purpose
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Social
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Except
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Housewives
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Housework
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Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.
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If they [women] are to be integrated more fully into our society than has been the case so far, changes in individual attitudes of both men and women, adjustments in the labor market, and action by public authorities, will all be necessary.
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The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.
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It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a remedy, more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
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The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.
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Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.
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War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
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A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of balance and deterrence.
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More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.
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marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child - is served by the present tendency to put these things all on one side as 'Woman's World.
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All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
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I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.
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First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
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War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
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If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
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The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
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