Ann Oakley

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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
Collection: Society
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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
Collection: Relationship
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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
- Ann Oakley
Collection: Inspirational
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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
Collection: Mother