On Being a Woman
This the text of a speech given by Katherine G. Howard at the Communion Breakfast, Christ Church Cathedral, Springfield, Massachusetts
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OCR Page 1 of 14"ON BEING A WOMAN"
Remarks of the
HONORABLE MRS. KATHERINE G. HOWARD
U. s. Delegate to the NATO Civil Defense Committee
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at the
Communion Breakfast, Christ Church Cathedral
Springfield, Massachusetts
February 10, 1957
Being an American woman in the world today is the most exciting,
most challenging and most rewarding role that anyone could possibly have.
It often seems to me that in this particular day and age we
women "have our cake and eat it too."
In spite of all that has been said and written pro and con,
the emergence of women into full participation in all phases of American
life, women continue to be women first of all, and add unto this primary
necessity, successful activities in business, in the professions, in
politics and government and diplomacy.
What is a woman?
Is she "isugar and spice and everything nice", as we ware told
when we are little girls? I hope so. Perhaps those who tell us these
pleasant things are proceeding on the theory "Give a dog a name and he
will live up to it.' Certainly I think that is the way the men in our
lives want us to be, whether it be our fathers, brothers, sweethearts
or employers.
Perhaps each age and generation has had its own ideal of what a
woman is. One I like particularly well is given by Stephen Vincent Benet
in his epic American poem, "John Brown's Body. 11 Do you remember his
description of a Southern woman of the Civil War Period?
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