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are. If you're trying to save money for a house, all right, you can put your $2000 into that.

I don't think it's anything that anybody can do without paying for it. I really do strongly recommend that they don't try to do it unless they can have a big earning capacity. Some women do have a big earning capacity. Without much difficulty they have a large earning capacity. Take people who are in the entertainment business, the theatrical business, in the advertising business, in the cosmetic business, which seems an odd thing to be in. They make a great deal of money without too much trouble really. It isn't as hard work as being a social worker, or a government employee, or a practising lawyer. A lawyer works like a dog. The women don't get the easy, fancy posts in the law yet. They get the hard, grubby work. They prepare the brief. They don't get called on consultation at $100 an hour in some big enterprise. They get the hard work of it. They get great experience and great satisfaction out of that I'm sure. It keeps their minds alive.

Getting back to Mrs. Moskowitz, I don't think she ever thought these plans out. What I want to make clear is that in all the families I know there is usually a fairly cooperative arrangement. Lots of families where the woman hasn't any professional life disagree about politics. It doesn't seem to tear the household to pieces. Mrs. Moskowitz wasn't so





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