Virginia C. Gildersleeve Quotes

GILDERSLEEVE, Virginia C. Quotes

(1877-1965), American college dean

Marriage

I confess the combination of career and family is a problem for women that seems a bit difficult to me. Nursing schools and cooperative housekeeping may make it easier. Anyhow, many women are already practising it, by choice or by necessity—some 2,000,000 in fact—and in the future it will, I am sure, for economic, psychological reasons, be more and more usual for a woman to have a husband, children, a home and a career outside the home.