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as quoted in The Fifties by Brett Harvey (1993)

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self (support) mother (daughter relationships) women (4) love (2) money (2) employment of women (2) happiness (2) fathers (1) men (1) marriage (1)

I had a wonderful job. I worked for a big model agency in Manhattan.... When I got on the subway to go to work, it was like traveling into another world. Oh, the shops were beautiful, we had Bergdorf's, Bendel's, Bonwit's, DePinna. The women wore hats and gloves. Another world. At home, it was cooking, cleaning, taking care of the kids, going to PTA, Girl Scouts. But when I got into the office, everything was different, I was different.

Estelle Shuster

Estelle Shuster (b. c. 1923), U.S. realtor. As quoted in The Fifties, ch. 7, by Brett Harvey (1993).

Shuster was an interviewee in Harvey's oral history of the 1950s. Her children were eight and twelve when she began working; her husband and mother objected, but she had "to get out of the house."

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