Be careful what you wish for
Submitted by ellen on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 9:43am
Some extraordinary women, such as Marie Curie, achieved success despite their society's biases against women, leading to a feminist saying attributed to Frances "Sissy" Farenthold: "We will have a achieved equality when mediocre women are as successful as mediocre men." Sarah Palin's presence on the Republican ticket proves that this day has been reached, but feminists aren't happy!
There's just no pleasing women.
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Will be forgottten
Inevitably in 10 years time it'll be 'Sarah who..?'
What's the future for women
I don't think Palin has the public support even if she did have the talent.
RE
"when mediocre women", that;s pretty mild still for Sarah Palin in my opinion.
Ellen Goodman
Columnist Ellen Goodman has also written about the applicability of this "prophecy" to Palin.
Alternate version of quotation
In researching this post, I found this unsourced version in an online quotation dictionary: "I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government", which also applies.
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