Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Quotes

“The notion of marriage as a union between two sovereign selves affirms virtues like independence, initiative, and self-reliance. Yet while attending to the virtues associated with the integrity of the individual, our contemporary discourse on marriage entirely neglects the virtues that are essential to the integrity of bonds--virtues like fidelity, kindness, forgiveness, modesty, gratitude, loyalty, patience, generosity, and selflessness.”
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
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“We've come a long way from the time when the crowning achievement in a woman's life was her youthful marriage. And many would agree that this represents progress for women. But when did the search for someone to marry become self-absorbed and pathetic? This absence of social sympathy for women's ambitions to marry is all the more striking because the social world has cared so deeply about virtually every other aspect of these privileged young women's inner and outer lives. (...) The achievement of a good marriage is the one area of life where the most privileged, accomplished, and high achieving young women in society face a loss of support and sympathy for their ambitions and where the social expectations are for disappointment and failure, not success.”
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
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Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
Date of birth: January 01, 1944
Born: in Rochester , Minnesota, The United States.

Description: Co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University. She lectures and writes about family and child well-being. On April 28, 2004, she gave testimony before the US Senate sub-committee on children and families.She grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, earned a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, studied at Columbia University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in American Social History from the University of Chicago. She holds an honorary doctorate in letters from Lawrence University.She her husband, Ralph Whitehead Jr., have three children and live in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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