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Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

Ann Oakley

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Ann Oakley
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 1
Novelist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
London
England
Rosamund Clay
Ann Rosamund Oakley
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