There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a wo...man standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvellous stove... and the child draws another inscrutable house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 »
Men have a low threshold for distraction. They are delicate. They are made nervous by having to do more than one thing at a time. ...They feel frazzled and angry if they have to answer three phone calls, and have a hard time settling back to work after the trauma. Women, on the other hand, develop the skill of doing many things at once. They tuck the phone in between their shoulders and their ears, hold a baby on one hip, stir a pot on the stove, all the while thinking about an idea for a story. They don't think it's unfair to have to do this. They think it's normal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what tho...se two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,... The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights Her stove, and lays out food in tins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissib...le to play, because their backyard fence plainly outlines the safe area. They learn about the invisible fence that surrounds the stove, and that Grandma has an invisible barrier around her cabinet of antique teacups.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When there was no more lantern in the kitchen, The fire got out through crannies in the stove... And danced in yellow wrigglers on the ceiling, As much at home as if they'd always danced there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,... Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until her child goes to school, the Japanese mother devotes herself to the rearing of the child. In verbal and nonverbal ways, she... reminds the child of her deep, deep, warm feelings and that the child is the most important thing in the world to her. Then she say, "After all I've done for you, don't disappoint me." She's like the Jewish mother who says, "What do you mean you're not hungry--after I've slaved all day over a hot stove for you."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »