John Eldredge Quotes

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

I'm pretty sure that changing diapers of all sizes isn't the kind of women's work Betty Friedan had in mind, nor Linda Hirshman.

When I was a young boy, very young boy, mothers didn't work. Women were home, they took care of the house, they washed the dishes and took care of the children. That's what they did, and that's what my mother did.

Politics wasn't a traditional course for a woman.

My mother was a housewife, and she had no job throughout her entire life.

That's what's interesting: When you release an album, everyone hears it their own way.

Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

in a woman's womb. another chance. to make the world better.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.

We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman

I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

I have a set of images that go around the world in an art gallery installation. Each of them have different audiences, and they kind of each elucidate the subject in a slightly different way, and they ping off of each other.

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

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

He is not to them what he is to me.