Marguerite Duras Quotes

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

The definition of woman's work is shitwork.

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

The ability of women is not known because they are relegated to the business of procreation, child-rearing, and breast feeding.

I'm against all employment for women outside their home...In my opinion basically the access of women to the factory floor is against the laws of nature...Besides if women are employed by industry and the public sector, they will displace men and close their employment opportunities.

All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill.

We are still uneasy with women and power…For a man to be ruthless, he has to be like Joe McCarthy. For a woman, she just has to put somebody on hold.

It was seldom suggested that women’s drudgery could be decreased in the meantime by the simple expedient of sharing it with men.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.

I am criticizing a culture that has sold the big lie that 'Mom doesn't matter.'

Why women will do all the household works? It should change.