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Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.

Faye Wattleton

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Faye Wattleton
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 8
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Midwife
News Presenter
Nurse
Registered Nurse
St. Louis
Missouri
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.
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The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.
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