Post: #1

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/arch...nt/281634/

Thoughts?

Post: #2

Here's some of the article/interview:

Quote:A Centenarian's Advice to Young Women: Figure Out What You Want

A conversation with Marian Cannon Schlesinger about feminism, privilege, Julia Child, and the Kennedy era.

Quote:“Just go ahead and do your thing no matter what,” says Marian Cannon Schlesinger to today’s young women. At 101 years of age, she is still painting, writing, watching Rachel Maddow, and reading two newspapers a day.

As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of JFK’s assassination, many of the people who can recall the era in detail have passed on. Marian Cannon Schlesinger was married to Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historian, speechwriter and special advisor to President John F. Kennedy, living in D.C. and raising four children during his Washington years. Well-traveled, having studied in China prior to their marriage, she returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts after their divorce. She has written and illustrated five children’s books and, in 2012, published the second volume of her memoirs: I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People.

I sat down with her recently to hear about her time in Washington, memories of being raised an “academic child” at Harvard, advice for independent women, and recipes for leading a “full life.”





Amidst all the cheering from individuals such as Lean In’s Sheryl Sandberg, many educated women of privilege in America have opted out of careers and public engagement to raise families, touting domesticity as a singular focus, in part because the alternative juggling act is so difficult and the infrastructure in the U.S. to support working parents is so paltry.

A centenarian who participated in a relatively traditional marriage might be the last person one would expect to call these women out. But when I talked to her, Ms. Schlesinger refocused the conversation on responsibility as much as personal happiness: “Well-taken-care-of women who are well-educated, highly intelligent, well-read—a woman who has all this quality, all this talent, all this energy and yet nowhere to put it—I don't know,” she said. “I would start by saying you can involve yourself in local problems. There are all sorts of things that have to be tended to in the world.”

Hahahahaha....Even 100 year old bitches don't know what they want or what women should do.




Edit: Some more

Quote:You spent your entire childhood among luminaries. Your father was the Francis Lee Higgins Professor of Physiology at Harvard for forty years. Your mother was a celebrated novelist and helped found Planned Parenthood. Were you impressed by all of this?

I think that's why June Bingham and I used to have such fun over the whole thing in Washington. We didn't take it very seriously because we had seen something of the world before we arrived.

We had a lot of fun as a family and we always had lots of people coming in and out of the house. My mother ran an “open” house really and she'd take care of all these sort of crazy relatives who had nervous breakdowns and things like that. These two wonderful aunts lived with us. So, I had three mothers, in a way.

My mother was very active in politics. She was out in the world and my two aunts were professional women and, for that period, it was rare. One of them was a founder of medical social services at Massachusetts General Hospital and the other, who had beautiful taste, owned a children's store in Harvard Square from which generations of children were clothed.

Quote:What advice do you have on how to be a free-spirited woman?

Just go ahead and do your thing no matter what.

Also, my mother had said, 'It doesn't really matter if your house is that dirty. Go ahead and do your thing. Don't pay too much attention to housekeeping.' Of course, she did have a nice maid who came in every day but we didn't have any live-in servants. My mother did most of the cooking. Sometimes it was not so good, but it was adequate.

In those days, women who had higher education, especially back in my childhood, were rather rare. The fact that they've gone out and gotten this education has differentiated them from other people in a way.

But there are strong women everywhere whether they have higher education or not! There have always been strong women.

This idea that feminism was created in the last twenty years is ridiculous. When you think of all the women that went across the continent in covered wagons. Really. It's ridiculous. It's a lot of baloney. If they'd read a little history, they'd find out that women have been powerful characters all through the history of the United States.

You must recognize, though, that some women still can't find their voice?

I think there are a lot of privileged women who are frustrated. They just don't know what they want to do and they need to go out and use their education and talent. I'm very fortunate because not only do I paint but I also write. I had plenty to do.

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Jesus Christ, she was a feminist before feminism was even a thing. The archetype privileged white bitch.

Quote:Also, my mother had said, 'It doesn't really matter if your house is that dirty. Go ahead and do your thing. Don't pay too much attention to housekeeping.' Of course, she did have a nice maid who came in every day but we didn't have any live-in servants. My mother did most of the cooking. Sometimes it was not so good, but it was adequate.

What a great mother she had.

Post: #4

(05-04-2015 07:12 AM)KofiKingston Wrote:  Jesus Christ, she was a feminist before feminism was even a thing. The archetype privileged white bitch.

Quote:Also, my mother had said, 'It doesn't really matter if your house is that dirty. Go ahead and do your thing. Don't pay too much attention to housekeeping.' Of course, she did have a nice maid who came in every day but we didn't have any live-in servants. My mother did most of the cooking. Sometimes it was not so good, but it was adequate.

What a great mother she had.

Post: #5

Huh, turn out that even after 100 years of life, women still have no useful wisdom to add.

Post: #6

The real question. 100+ Would you bang ?

Post: #7

(05-04-2015 04:33 PM)Ingocnito Wrote:  The real question. 100+ Would you bang ?

Yes, would get my 100+ flag

Post: #8

(05-04-2015 04:35 PM)MiscBrah Wrote:  

(05-04-2015 04:33 PM)Ingocnito Wrote:  The real question. 100+ Would you bang ?

Yes, would get my 100+ flag

Random note to OP: Shitty title and effort on this thread. Apply yourself.

Post: #9

I thought maybe she might be a little old school and guide the new age millenial mornic fems.