Life Begins at 45
RS. NAN PARSONS’S talk "Women in the Community," the second in 2YA’s series Let’s Look at Ourselves was more a blueprint of what we might be than a monochrome picture of what we are. Which made for lovely listening. In fact I would rank’ Mrs. Parsons’s talk as one of the most inspiring I have heard on the morning air,
and the warm intimacy of her. approach, her courageous use of the personal pronoun and the autobiographical confession, must have succeeded in evoking imptlses to growth in minds even less susceptible than my
own. Mrs. Parsons began by declaiming the obituaries of various women who had deserved well of the state, whose ‘record of public service made them fit‘ting examples for us to follow. She deftly demolished our time-honoured line of defence against charges of apathy by admitting that the housewife with young children has every excuse for nonparticipation in the community life, but by 45, pointed out Mrs. Parsons, the domestic round has probably ceased to be a vicious circle. By that time the energies previously directed to the bringing up of children could well be directed into a wider channel. Mrs. Parsons concluded her talk with a wisely reasoned scheme for the bringing up of daughters, directed at enabling them to get through
the slough of domesticity with a minimum of discomfort and emerge with undamaged cervical cortex on the other side.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 462, 30 April 1948, Page 12
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238Life Begins at 45 New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 462, 30 April 1948, Page 12
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