Pearl Buck

Pearl Buck appeared on “The Mike Wallace Interview” on Feb. 8, 1958, for a discussion that focused on the place of women in American society. At various points of the interview, Wallace asked Buck if she thought women could balance a career and family life, if she thought women were “superior” to men, and if she thought women were trying to “usurp men.”

“I don't think any women really want to usurp the place of men,” Buck said. “I think we do have a peculiar circumstance in our country, in that we have we educate our boys and girls exactly the same, and so that the fields of success are the same, and I think that women have the obligation and the right to do anything that they wish, but to do it as women and not as men, but having exactly the same education sometimes they don't know how to do it as women … they don't know what their contribution is.”

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