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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

~Ann Oakley

Topics: Directly Housework Human Opposed Possibility Self-Actualization Work

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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

Topics: Absorb Any Evaporates Exists Gone Integrity Left Love Means More Nothing Other Person Real Real Relationship Relationship Self Then To Love

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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

Topics: Being Call Children Clean Dedication Development Does Good Good Mother Housewife Individuals Interest Keeping May Mother Qualities Same Separate Tidy

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

~Ann Oakley

Topics: Duty Families Idolatry Nothing Other Than

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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

Topics: Always Around Bother Change Like Man Men Own Take Terms Were While Who Will Women

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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

Topics: Alternatives Career Clearly Expensive Fitness Insisting Mother Natural Society Stake Too Tremendous Woman

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Sociologist

Born: Unknown

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