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Quotation of the Day for June 10, 2010"Mon pauvre monsieur," she said when I asked whether she had continued to smoke during her pregnancies. "Of course, we all did then. You don't enter a religious order when you have children." There was another puff on the Stuyvesant. "Today, we're told we're not allowed to smoke, to eat unpasteurised cheese or seafood or even to a drink a glass of wine when we are pregnant. It's time to stop all that." - Elisabeth Badinter, French philosopher, and author of the new book, Le Conflit: La Femme et La Mère (The Conflict: The Woman and The Mother), from an interview with Adam Sage. [http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article7070165.ece] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jun. 7, 2010 |
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