Howard Zinn Quote
Cult of domesticity for the woman was a way of pacifying her with a doctrine of separate but equal—giving her work equally as important as the man’s, but separate and different. Inside that equality there was the fact that the woman did not choose her mate, and once her marriage took place, her life was determined. One girl wrote in 1791: The die is about to be cast which will probably determine the future happiness or misery of my life. . . . I have always anticipated the event with a degree of solemnity almost equal to that which will terminate my present existence.
Howard Zinn
Cult of domesticity for the woman was a way of pacifying her with a doctrine of separate but equal—giving her work equally as important as the man’s, but separate and different. Inside that equality there was the fact that the woman did not choose her mate, and once her marriage took place, her life was determined. One girl wrote in 1791: The die is about to be cast which will probably determine the future happiness or misery of my life. . . . I have always anticipated the event with a degree of solemnity almost equal to that which will terminate my present existence.
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About Howard Zinn
Zinn described himself as "something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist." He wrote extensively about the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement and labor history of the United States. His memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Beacon Press, 1994), was also the title of a 2004 documentary about Zinn's life and work. Zinn died of a heart attack in 2010, at age 87.