Ann Oakley Quotes

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

Good, Mother, Children

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

Work, Human, Housework

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

Fitness, Society, Mother

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
Ann Oakley

Nothing, Duty, Families

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

Love, Nothing, Integrity

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

Change, Women, Men

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Nationality: British

Type: Sociologist

Born: 1944

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