The purpose of ritual for men is to learn the rules of power and competition. Watching sports together, for example, they see the ...formal enactment of ritual, become loyal to a team, learn to conceal their vulnerability. The purpose of ritual for women (going to lunch together, sharing a favorite salon, etc.) is to learn how to make human connections. They are often more intimate and vulnerable with one another than they are with their men, and taking care of other women teaches them to take care of themselves. In these formal ways, men and women domesticate their emotional lives. But their strategies are different, their biological itineraries are different. His sperm needs to travel, her egg needs to settle down. It's astonishing that they survive happily at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is en...tirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some of the things ... sound like things our grandmothers would have told us: "Men will be boys. We let them play their little gam...es with each other. We know it isn't about the important things, but they think so. So we let them. We take care of them so that they can go on playing...." What grandma did not tell us is that men are capable of something altogether different.... But even though men are untapped wells of potential, they will not move forward if women continue to subsidize the status quo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One fellow I was dating in medical school ... was a veterinarian and he wanted to get married. I said, but you're going to be movi...ng to Minneapolis, and he said, oh, you can quit and I'll take care of you. I said, "Go."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,--to r...egard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than as a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselve...s.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You do not expect a distinguished lawyer to clean his own clothes, a doctor to groom his horse, a teacher to take care of the scho...olhouse furnace, a preacher to half-sole his shoes.... Yet a woman who enters upon any line of achievement is invariably hampered, for at least the early years, with the inbred desire to add to the labor of her profession all the so-called feminine duties, which, fulfilled to-day, are yet to be done to-morrow, which bring her neither comfort, gain nor reputation, and which by their perpetual demand diminish her powers for a higher quality of work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary c...onsideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is said, the devil takes care of his own. Much more should a good spirit--the spirit of the Constitution and the Union--take ca...re of its own. I think it can not do less, and live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »