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great advertising woman!” So what! What earthly good did it do her? Many of them regret their situation later on because the thing they did was like advertising - it was of no sense anyhow. It wasn't worth doing. You spent as much energy on it as though it was the salvation of the world that you were contributing to.

The women that I knew of my generation who had a career and a family were practically all of them accidents and had no deliberate purpose at all. That was true of me - it was pure accident.

As to Belle Moskowitz, she had to go to work when Israels died. I helped her to get a job somewhere or other. She had to catch on. She was able and she did catch on. Then she got into politics very quickly. She had great ability and she had three children of her own. Henry Moskowitz's earnings were not very large. They were not enormous. I think she always felt a kind of compulsion to earn enough money not only to maintain, but to educate her children and to give them the advantages that she wanted, because Henry's income was never large enough to provide for everything of that sort. That was part of her intention. She was a very competent woman. She knew how to run the house with one hand. She had her old mother to help her with the children a good deal. She had to continue to earn





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