Tender, Loving Care

A Massachusetts woman tells of the morning she met a male neighbor in the laundry room of their apartment building. “How is your ten-year-old daughter?” the woman asked. “Well,” he said, “let’s put it this way: I was helping her with her homework last night when she looked up at me and said, ‘Dad, you’re so smart you should be a woman.'”

Last “Mother’s Day” in the U.S., one of the pioneers in the “Woman’s Liberation Movement” was invited to speak at a prayer breakfast. Quite unexpectedly, her audience heard her say …

Although it accomplished many worthwhile things, I have come to realize that “Woman’s Lib” made a mistake when we opted for social change that would have the effect of making us more like men. Instead, I think we should have been opting for changes that would have the effect of making men more like us.

She went on to say that it would be hard to convince her now…