WORK AND FAMILY:
The Women Who Dared point out that because the hours of the day are finite, combining activist work with family life can present logistical challenges. But some of these women have also discovered that often they are better parents as activists and better activists as parents. Many of the Women Who Dared have found ways to share their activism with their families and their children, imbuing both the current and next generation with the commitment to social change.
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My husband used to be teased all the time: 'Your wife's one of the ones involved in SHALVA, well what does that mean about you.' (Fayge Siegal)
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SHALVA (Safe Homes Advice and Legal Aid for Victims of Abuse)
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Having a family hasn't changed how I've done this work. The only time it was limiting was when I couldn't go to Sierra Leone because I was giving birth
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Lynn Amowitz
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Ari actually figured [my work] out on his own. When the Kosovar refugee crisis happened, he was watching TV with us
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Lynn Amowitz
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My husband, Ben, Alav Hashalom, was fully supportive and proud. In fact, I taught him how to do Haftarah, too.
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Hadassah Blocker
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I think you always do [feel conflicts between professional work and family] because you only have a finite amount of time, your children only grow up once
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Renee Brant
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Sometimes it's hard, but I really haven't really faced so many problems
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Elana Brownstein
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Always, every day [I experienced conflicts between my work with ACT and family responsibilities]. But you sort of deal with them. You try to work it so that you don't feel guilty about how you're treating your children
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Peggy Charren
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All of my work for the National Breast Cancer Coalition and also the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition and more recently Jewish Women's Coalition for Breast Cancer is totally volunteer, on my own time
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Judi Hirshfield-Bartek
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I do sometimes [feel that it is hard to have work that is paid work and work that is unpaid] because what happens is that there is so much stuff to be done
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Judi Hirshfield-Bartek
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I think the best you can impart [to your kids] is the ability to question and challenge authority
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Margaret Lazarus
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Doing that action together with [my sons] was really important to me.
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Sally Mack
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It's my favorite story in terms of my kids about activism. When my daughter
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Shelley Morhaim
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I think that [my children] are truly inspired and committed to [activism]
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Marla Oros
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Well I have a wonderful husband who, despite the fact that he is a very busy
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Marla Oros
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The question that you are really asking me is, can you have it all? Can you have a family and be in the workforce
and work as many hours as is necessary to do the job?
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Ruth Rothstein
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I tried not to [feel conflicts between family responsibilities and my job], but I know that when I was going to school, the kids kind of resented that.
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Freyda Sanders
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My mother was always worried about me. When we left each other in morning, we never knew if we would see each other at night again.
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Denise Schorr
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I don't know if [my field] was difficult for my kids when they were young; they certainly never implied that, and in fact I can remember them bringing their friends to me to ask questions
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Laurie Schwab Zabin
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I very much try to save time to be a real human being
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Laurie Schwab Zabin
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"Until I had my son, I spent as much time as I possibly could toward my career and my advocacy. Now I spend a lot of time with my son."
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Abby Shevitz
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It's hard to separate my advocacy from my paid work. I think that I think of myself as someone who works to change situations and so there's never really been a line between
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Betsy Shure Gross
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Your family sees you as mom.
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Marillyn Tallman
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When my youngest daughter, Heidi, was coming home from school at about quarter past two, I had just started teaching child development
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Gertrude Webb
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I guess [I balanced work and family] the best that I could. You can never do anything 100%.
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Hanna Weinberg
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There was no way they [my children] could not know [about my work in domestic abuse]
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Hanna Weinberg
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"We learn a lot of skills as mothers — skills about patience, about multitasking."
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Sue Wolf-Fordham
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When I had children, I realized that I would never put myself on the line like that again, at least not until they had grown up
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Judy Frieze Wright
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Well it's always hard to juggle, but fortunately I do have a partner who is also committed to arranging a flexible work schedule
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Janet Yassen
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My family is incredibly supportive.... I used to bring kids
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Rebecca Yenawine
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