Summer is different. We now have breakfast together, for example ... it hasn't happened in so long that we're not sure how to go a...bout it. So we bump into each other in the kitchen. I never saw Ozzie and Harriet bump into each other in the kitchen--not once. Ozzie knew his place was at the table, while Harriet knew that her place was at the stove.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many Americans imagine simpler times even as a storm of social change swirls about, blowing parents here and children there. Sure,... the 1950s ideal world would be wonderful. But knock on the nation's doors: Ozzie and Harriet are seldom at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld,... If the street were time and he at the end of the street, And I say, "Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Employees from families where all adults work are still coping with rules and conditions of work designed, as one observer put it,... to the specifications of Ozzie and Harriet. These conditions include rigid adherence to a 40-hour workweek, a concept of career path inconsistent with the left cycle of a person with serious family responsibilities, notions of equity formed in a different era, and performance evaluation systems that confuse effort with results by equating hours of work with productivity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think of myself as a sex symbol or a servant. I think of myself as somebody who knows how to open the door of a 747 in the... dark, upside down, and under water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The restlessness that comes upon girls upon summer evenings results in lasting trouble unless it is speedily controlled. The right... kind of man does not look for a wife on the streets, and the right kind of girl waits till the man comes to her home for her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the pres...idential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have defeated them all.... I was left with some money to battle with the world when quite young, and at the present time have mu...ch to feel proud of.... The Lord gave me talent, and I know I have done good with it.... For my brains have made me quite independent and without the help of any man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »