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There are two marriages, then, in every marital union, his and hers. And his ... is better than hers.

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Jessie Bernard
Age: 93 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 8
Died: 1996
Died: October 6
Sociologist
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Jessie Shirley Bernard
Jessie Sarah Ravitch
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Marriages
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Unions
Two
Better
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No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.
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