Bachelor Girl by Betsy Israel & Betsy Israel

Author:Betsy Israel & Betsy Israel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2001-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Where do they go when they are out of work and hungry?…they are not on the breadlines. There are no flophouses for women…you don’t see women lying on the floor of the mission in the free flops…or under newspapers in the park and trying to get into the Y without any money or looking down at the heel. Charities take…only those called “deserving.” The lone girl is under suspicion by the virgin women who dispense charity…. Where do these women go?

One read about these women on very slow news days, in stories that often seemed more like public-service announcements. Women who made the news were valorous like Eleanor Roosevelt, brave and spunky like Anne Morrow Lindbergh, glamorous—the duchess of Windsor, Marlene Dietrich—or extraordinary, like Babe Didrikson Zaharias, the mega-sportswoman. (At a time when there were no organized women’s sports, Zaharias served as a one-woman Olympic team. Asked once if there was anything she didn’t play, she answered, “Dolls.”) But the average single woman wasn’t asked very often what she thought or did. And when someone—a man, an official—happened to ask, certain assumptions about her character seemed always to creep their way into the questions.

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