Too many times women are made to feel they should apologize for being mothers and housewives. In realty, such roles can be noble callings.
When I was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, there were such gatherings from time to time to which faculty members brought their spouses. Inevitably, some woman lawyer or sociologist would confront my wife with the question, "And what is it that you do, my dear?"
My wife, who is one of the most brilliantly articulate individuals I know, had a great response:
"I am socializing two homo sapiens in the dominant values of the Judeo-Christian tradition in order that they might be instruments of the transformation of the social order in the teleologically prescribed utopia inherent into the echelon."
When she followed with, "And what is it that you do?" the other person's "A lawyer" just wasn't that overpowering.
-tony compolo
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