Many women are surprised by the intensity of their maternal pull and the conflict it brings to their competing roles. This is the ...precise point at which many women feel the stress of the work/family dilemma most keenly. They realize that they may have a price to pay for wanting to be both professionals and mothers. They feel guilty for not being at work, and angry for being manipulated into feeling this guilt. . . . They don't quite fit at home. They don't quite fit at work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the ...individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily a...s one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing t...heir Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their po...wer, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little ...sense knocked into it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"In great misfortunes," he told himself, "people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within ...one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in." Falling out, for him, seemed to mean falling out of all domestic and social relations, out of his place in the human family, indeed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm,... the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them--their only ...contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and ...once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »