Ann Oakley Quotes

Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild care. 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 at the office or factory and a "second shift" at home.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.

I think just because you're a mom, it doesn't negate - if anything, you're probably more enhanced - that you're a woman trying to find your place in the world.

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.

All girls know that they can be anything now. That transformation is to me one of the most satisfying things.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and homemaking.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people through interactivity. I want people to discover themselves as actors, as creative actors, by having interactive experiences.

The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.

From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -- except the housewife.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could.

If a woman puts in a full day's work, what is left of her energy must be given to her family in personal contact and not in drudgery. Therefore, family restaurants will have to be organized as they have been abroad. Here good food may be obtained for entire families at the same price as they would pay for food at home.

The great majority of married women must be regarded as occupied on work which is vital though unpaid, without which the husbands could not do their paid work and without which the nation could not continue.

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

All men can and will change. But there's only one woman we're going to change for.

Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology and theory of pedagogy are essential in girls' education.