Quotes by Ann Oakley

Ann Oakley

British sociologist, writer

Category: History and sociology | Writers (Contemporary)

Lived from: 1944-

• 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.

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• Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

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

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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.

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• Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.

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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

  British sociologist, writer 1944-

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