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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love.… — Ann Oakley Copy Share Image
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. — Ann Oakley Copy Share Image
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… — Ann Oakley Copy Share Image
Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy… — Ann Oakley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle… — Ann Oakley Copy Share Image
