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Quotes by "Ann Oakley"

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
Tags: self, integrity, relationship, love
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
Tags: dedication, children, mother, good
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
— Ann Oakley
Tags: housework, opposed, self-actualization, human, work
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
— Ann Oakley
Tags: other, than, duty, nothing
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
Tags: woman, society, fitness, mother
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