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Article: Shame on the throwbacks. (women who behave subserviently)(Column)
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- Cosmopolitan
- Article date:
- August 1, 1996
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As the daughter of a woman who cooked gourmet every night, was charming and pretty, agreed with her husband on which movies to see, and still ended up divorced, I happen to believe that nice girls finish last. So it's deeply alarming to me that more and more of my friends are becoming overly accommodating wives. They're not yet greeting the mister at the door swathed in Saran Wrap, but they're coming disturbingly close to wifedom as prescribed by Marybel Morgan. You may call that love. I call it fear.
One woman I know, a former high-earning stockbroker from Boston, makes Doris Day look like a bra banner. Even though she was known as the dragon lady at the office, she ...