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must always supply and buy the services which she would perform in the home if she were not going to work, which means a first-class cook-housekeeper. You must also be prepared for a very large element of waste which will never be taken care of by anybody but the owner. The more first-class the housekeeper-cook is, the greater the waste, usually. It's really true. You just have to shut your eyes and say, “That's all right. That's the price I pay for going to work. I mustn't fuss about it.”
I think the husbands of women with careers are just the same as all other men. If they can't bear it, they'll say so. That will be the end of it. No woman can follow her profession and her professional duties if her husband is unwilling. It just can't be done. She'll decide whether she wants to please her husband and keep her husband, or whether she wants her profession more. That really doesn't arise usually, because the chango usually comes so gradually that if he's really totally unwilling, she just doesn't do it. I would say she mustn't and she can't. That's one of the things that has to be taken into account. If he doesn't want you to, don't do it. It's ridiculous. There's no such demand on you to go and be a professional as to make you really break faith with your husband. That's for you to say. There's no argument about it. He just doesn't like it.
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