
Address accepting the Republican presidential nomination (23 August 1984)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Interview for Women's E News, 21 Leaders for the 21st Century (2008)
Address accepting the Republican presidential nomination (23 August 1984)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Points of View (1959) Ch. 1
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 89
Context: Feminism was always wrong to pretend that women could “have it all.” It is not male society but mother nature who lays the heaviest burden on woman. No husband or day care can adequately substitute for a mother’s attention. My feminist heroes are the boldly independent and childless Amelia Earhart and Katherine Hepburn, who has been outspoken in her opposition to the delusion of “having it all.”
“Is it for this purpose that we are strong—that we may have light burdens to bear?”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVIII: On the Healing Power of the Mind