Wellesley girls who are married have become quite adept at balancing their obligations....
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Betty Warren:
[Betty's Third Editorial Voice Over]
Wellesley girls who are married have become quite adept at balancing their obligations. One hears such comments as, "I'm able to baste the chicken with one hand and outline the paper with the other." While our mothers were called to the workforce for lady liberty it is our duty, nay, obligation to reclaim our place in the home bearing the children that will carry our traditions into the future. One must pause to consider why; Ms. Katherine Watson, instructor in the art history department, has decided to declare war on the holy sacrament of marriage. Her subversive and political teachings encourage our Wellesley girls to reject the roles they were born to fill.
Katherine Watson:
Slide - Contemporary art...
Connie Baker:
No, that's just an advertisement...
Katherine Watson:
Quiet. Today you just listen. What will future scholars see when they study us, a portrait of women today? There you are ladies: the perfect likeness of a Wellesley graduate, Magna Cum Laude, doing exactly what she was trained to do. Slide - a Rhodes Scholar, I wonder if she recites Chaucer while she presses her husband's shirts. Slide - hehe, now you physics majors can calculate the mass and volume of every meatloaf you make. Slide - A girdle to set you free. What does that mean? What does that mean? What does it mean? I give up, you win. The smartest women in the country, I didn't realize that by demanding excellence I would be challenging... what did it say?
[Walks over to a student and picks up her copy of the editorial]
Katherine Watson:
What did it say? Um... the roles you were born to fill. Is that right?
[Looks up at Betty]
Katherine Watson:
The roles you were born to fill? It's, uh, it's my mistake.
[Katerine drops the student's paper back onto her desk]
Katherine Watson:
Class dismissed.
[Katherine walks out of the classroom]
Transcript
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Giselle what are you doing here
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Freezing
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Look it's over I can't see you anymore
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I can't I know
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Really
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I just want to talk to you for a minute
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Come on
Clip duration: 29 seconds
Views: 193
Timestamp in movie: 00h 53m 22s
Uploaded: 17 March, 2022
Genres: drama
Summary: The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, United States.
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00:22 And it was perfect Romantic We stayed up all night talking
00:35 These girls Are you proud President Carr
00:21 But Katherine Watson didn't come to Wellesley to fit in
00:17 A good wife lets her husband think that everything's...
00:11 Just look at it again Look beyond the paint
00:35 But not all who wander are aimless
00:12 I was in California once How do you get work done with all...
00:15 And it says here that you're pre law What law school...
00:07 Katherine Watson Nice to meet you Dr Watson I presume
00:37 I got accepted early to Yale Law School
00:09 You don't believe in withholding do you
00:09 You didn't come to Wellesley to help people find their...
00:33 It's not that easy is it
00:24 Just a few rules No holes in the walls
00:24 Dear Betty
00:33 Married Wellesley girls have become quite adept at balancing...
00:06 Was on her way to the most conservative college in the...
00:12 You'll need to Whatever you do
00:10 This is quite the event
00:15 You ever hear the expression Keeping up with the Joneses