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Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

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Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 1
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