Marriage and Family
In 1965, she married William Meadows, an oil pipeline worker, with whom she had three children. Silkwood left her husband in 1972 and moved to Oklahoma City, where she briefly worked as a hospital clerk.
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“Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife’s thrift, and that woman’s life has no other aim.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.”
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