There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around. -Ann Oakley

 

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.


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Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

Ann Oakley

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Ann Oakley

The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values.

Ann Oakley

Being a "good" mother does not call for the same qualities as being a "good" housewife. . . . a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

Ann Oakley

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Ann Oakley