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Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're

Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.

Caryl Rivers
Mother, Jobs, Men

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

Caryl Rivers
Smell, Machines, Time Machine
Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.

Caryl Rivers
Age, Done, Aging
Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

Caryl Rivers
Freedom, Complicated, Servitude
Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

Caryl Rivers
Weed, Guilt, Age
Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

[On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death.

Caryl Rivers
Barbie Dolls, People, Trying

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

Caryl Rivers
Engineering, Political, Great Inventions
Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

Caryl Rivers
Writing, Typewriters, Chairs

Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not from the killing. It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.

Caryl Rivers
Technology, Men, Light
Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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