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A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" read more
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.".
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that read more
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand read more
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.
Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know read more
Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be read more
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.
It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.
It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.
Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.
Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.
Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.